elm makes boards? elm is a good wood for furnature?
really? on which planet? the american elm, is a beautiful tree, with its V shape, but the grain of the elm is twisted and its almost impossible to cut, and harder still to plane or sand smooth.. (and no one can split it!, it just can't be done!) Elms remained after all the woods were cut down, since there was no reason to cut them.. they didn't make good firewood or furniture, or anything.. but they gave a nice soft, dappled shade, and they sure looked pretty...
it works as a words.. broad can become board... but elm boards are available the same place that stocks hen's teeth!
(even elm that have been killed off by dutch elm disease aren't cut down.. since they are even hard to cut with a chain saw- says a woman who once spent a fortune getting a elm that was cracking her house foundation cut down.)
