What is the current going price for wormy chestnut wood per board foot.?

The boards are 1/2 inch thick, tongue and groove paneling and about 6 to 7 feet in length.

What is the current going price for wormy chestnut wood per board foot.?
Wormy Chesnut is about as rare as hen's teeth.



In the south, heart pine is selling for 8-10 per board foot because it is a good hard pine that comes from trees that cannot be harvested, they almost went extinct. Chestnut has been extinct since the 1930s and what made the wood "wormy" is what caused its extinction.



They are making lumber out of chestnuts that fell prior to 1930 by going back into the forest of appalachia and pulling out what are called "sogs" or trees where the outside is soft, but the inside is solid. But there is not much of it. Chesnut does not like to rot and bugs generally don't like it.



I would say that that it would sell for $15 per board foot to $20. A board foot is 1 inch thick x 1 foot wide, by 1 foot long, so you are going to have to measure accurately and market it via want ads. 1/2 inch thick does not leave much room for planeing if the wood has gotten chewed up by furniture, children, or animals.



Basically, I would pay $15 a foot for it if there was enough to do my living room which is quite large.



Chesnut looks a lot like oak, but is a different color and has a slighly different grain to it. I hunt for antiques market as oak which are really chestnut, and refinish them. Most people who see it will call it oak and they make that wormy looking sometimes by standing away from it and blasting it with #8 shot from a shotgun.

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