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Chestnut was my first thought before I even saw your guess.
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Hmmm?
You see chestnut, I see something like pine.
Not white pine, the longleaf which used to grow up north.
What’s it smell like when milled?
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Looks more like poplar than chestnut to me. The lighter bands on chestnut tend to be wider than the dark bands on face grain. If he has longer board shots, that would help. Chestnut tends to have a lot of worm holes.
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Upstate NY , 100 yrs ago I’m saying Pine. Not like my Eastern Ohio salvaged Chestnut at all.
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Kind of looks like chestnut to me. I got a batch of old chestnut barn wood from the north east several years ago. Looks similar.