[pianotech] Thubby Chipboard, was: Flagpoling

[Ron Nossaman]

On 8/13/2012 7:47 AM, Terry Farrell wrote:
> Well, it's more like mahogany than pine, but looks much closer to walnut
> or ash in it's ring porous cell structure, and it is brown/tan maybe a
> little reddish in color.
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> On Aug 12, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:
>
>> Ron,
>> Would Chestnut be that slightly reddish wood that isn't mahogany? How
>> would I readily identify it?
>>
>> Thumpe


It's also softer and more flexible than Sitka spruce, and much more so 
than yellow poplar. It's about like red cedar. So much for hardwood case 
core materials.
Ron N