chestnut Wood is firm, rather netyajela, is easily and smoothly pricked, well is polished and differs bol'shoyu durability, especially in crude places, paternal it is used as front, bocharnyi and joiner's wood. Well gives in to processing. It is used for furniture manufacturing, including gnutoi, so-called Viennese furniture and in parquet floors. At drying tends to formation of cracks and korobleniyu.
Volume weight in an air-dry condition: 600 - 720 kg/cubic metres
Sort of coniferous evergreen trees of family pine (Pinaceae). The trunk in height of 25-50 m. Grows in mountains at height of 1300-3600 m, forming cedar woods together with a fir, a fur-tree, a pine, an oak, etc. 4 kinds; are extended in Atlas mountains, in northwest Africa (the Cedar atlasskii), Lebanon, Syria and the Kilikijsky Tauri in Asia Minor (the Cedar Lebanese), islands Cypruss (the Cedar korotkohvoinyi) and the western Himalayas (the Cedar Himalaya, so-called Deodar). In Europe the cedar is known as a garden tree and a tree for park.
Wood yellowish or reddish, dense, heavy, aromatic, steady against damages by mushrooms and insects.
Cedar wood is easily processed. After surface processing slightly shine. The cedar dries quickly and without the big problems. The cedar is used for furniture creation, and earlier it there was a popular wood for shipbuilding. Before finishing works it is necessary to remove pitch.