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Originally Posted by special-K

Yeah, those guys deal with crap-in-wood all the time. We have to mill some chestnut for a guy coming up soon. Metal detectors are great but you still have to get the metal out of the wood. And this stuff has been stored outside uncovered, which messes the readings up.

It's probably older growth (which has a tighter grain), and I wish I could get ahold of some chestnut like that at a reasonable price. But by the time some got found, shipping to California would kill any kind of deal.