It does split easily, bill. But if you ever need to nail a lot of it use "square" "cut" nails. They punch a rectangular hole as they're driven through the board instead of acting like a wedge as a conventional nail does. In my dining room the flooring, the walls up to the chair rail, the chair rail itself and the 7- piece crown molding were all nailed with cut nails. Very few splits, and those boards were 70-80 yr. old re-planed lumber salvaged from tenant houses on this place. Fat as a pig.

SRH

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