Comments on: Chestnut Oak http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/chestnut-oak/ By Woodworkers, For Woodworkers. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:45:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: sandra rose http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/chestnut-oak/comment-page-1/#comment-754 sandra rose Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:26:00 +0000 http://www.wood-database.com/?p=705#comment-754 Hi I accidently came across your post here talking about chestnut oak. I have a 141 acre farm of chestnut oak here in Kentucky if your interested. however don't contct me by email I lost my password and I'm in the process of retrieving it. 859-248-1912 cannot get me after 4pm. or you can call 606-723-4896 I will be at that number after 5:00pm. Thanks, Sandra Hi I accidently came across your post here talking about chestnut oak. I have a 141 acre farm of chestnut oak here in Kentucky if your interested. however don’t contct me by email I lost my password and I’m in the process of retrieving it.

859-248-1912 cannot get me after 4pm. or you can call 606-723-4896 I will be at that number after 5:00pm.

Thanks,
Sandra

]]> By: Gregory Richards http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/chestnut-oak/comment-page-1/#comment-744 Gregory Richards Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:36:21 +0000 http://www.wood-database.com/?p=705#comment-744 I am a professional woodworker who had the great privilege and pleasure of working with Chestnut Oak only once in my life. I haven't been able to find it anywhere since. I was building a set of staircases in the home of a heart surgeon in a small town located in Northern North Carolina - I don't recall the name of the town. The surgeon, however, was the head of the cardiology department in the local hospital in that town. In any case, the main set of the homes' stairs which led to the second floor had newel posts made of Ambrosia Maple, (I believe they were box newels, if I remember correctly), rails made of Mahogany, and treads made of Chestnut Oak. This Oak was only similar to White Oak, and that is all. Its' color was distinctly its own, having a markedly grayish tint to it, and it was most definitely a darker version of its' white oak kin. I would even say that it had the faintest presence of a greenish quality to its overall look. BUT the most valuable feature of this incredible wood, in my opinion, was its' ability to hold the finest of detail in my sculptures and carvings. You see, although I came across this wood only once in my life, I was able to procure enough of the left over stock to provide me with many, many hours of carving bliss. It was really astounding to me how easy it was to produce that which you wanted to in this lumber. It was almost as though it had no preset tenancies to go this way or that way in its' grains. It seemed to simply go where ever you set your gouges to go! It really broke my heart when several years after this project was completed I was unable to get anyone involved in that project to recall where that particular wood was purchased! Although I do know it was purchased in Virginia, in a town with the word "Church" in its' name, that is all I remember about it, and I've been nothing but unsuccessful in tracking down any lumber supplier who carries such a wood!! And now I am reading that Chestnut Oak is sold as White Oak, I can only say that a terrible injustice is being done to such a fine, fine wood....not that Whit Oak isn't, but Chestnut Oak has far too many unique qualities of its own to not merit a spotlight of its own, by itself, and not simply tossed in there with "white oak" as it always and so conveniently seems to be. I am a professional woodworker who had the great privilege and pleasure of working with Chestnut Oak only once in my life. I haven’t been able to find it anywhere since. I was building a set of staircases in the home of a heart surgeon in a small town located in Northern North Carolina – I don’t recall the name of the town. The surgeon, however, was the head of the cardiology department in the local hospital in that town. In any case, the main set of the homes’ stairs which led to the second floor had newel posts made of Ambrosia Maple, (I believe they were box newels, if I remember correctly), rails made of Mahogany, and treads made of Chestnut Oak. This Oak was only similar to White Oak, and that is all. Its’ color was distinctly its own, having a markedly grayish tint to it, and it was most definitely a darker version of its’ white oak kin. I would even say that it had the faintest presence of a greenish quality to its overall look.

BUT the most valuable feature of this incredible wood, in my opinion, was its’ ability to hold the finest of detail in my sculptures and carvings. You see, although I came across this wood only once in my life, I was able to procure enough of the left over stock to provide me with many, many hours of carving bliss. It was really astounding to me how easy it was to produce that which you wanted to in this lumber. It was almost as though it had no preset tenancies to go this way or that way in its’ grains. It seemed to simply go where ever you set your gouges to go!

It really broke my heart when several years after this project was completed I was unable to get anyone involved in that project to recall where that particular wood was purchased! Although I do know it was purchased in Virginia, in a town with the word “Church” in its’ name, that is all I remember about it, and I’ve been nothing but unsuccessful in tracking down any lumber supplier who carries such a wood!! And now I am reading that Chestnut Oak is sold as White Oak, I can only say that a terrible injustice is being done to such a fine, fine wood….not that Whit Oak isn’t, but Chestnut Oak has far too many unique qualities of its own to not merit a spotlight of its own, by itself, and not simply tossed in there with “white oak” as it always and so conveniently seems to be.

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