We did get quite a bit of Wormy Chestnut from it. I knew a few people in the mountains of NC whose families got quite rich off the stuff, actually. No, not the wood stained like it, but the real stuff. (By the time I saw it used in construction as a kid, it was some of the first generations of chestnut that was recycled from older houses. I didn’t see the stuff till the mid-80’s, so the wood was already well aged.)
People have probably found ways to artificially make it by now, but wood from the original trees that were killed was beautiful when used by a good architect and designer.
I wonder if the European species of chestnut are going to meet the same fate. For the past ten years every tree I see has signs of disease, by mid summer the leaves are becoming brown.
We did get quite a bit of Wormy Chestnut from it. I knew a few people in the mountains of NC whose families got quite rich off the stuff, actually. No, not the wood stained like it, but the real stuff. (By the time I saw it used in construction as a kid, it was some of the first generations of chestnut that was recycled from older houses. I didn’t see the stuff till the mid-80’s, so the wood was already well aged.)
People have probably found ways to artificially make it by now, but wood from the original trees that were killed was beautiful when used by a good architect and designer.
I wonder if the European species of chestnut are going to meet the same fate. For the past ten years every tree I see has signs of disease, by mid summer the leaves are becoming brown.