Sure, I can get behind that logic but it doesn't help me too much in this case. If there's a break down of how and why wood wears X way and so on, that would help me out as well. And no, I don't understand diffuse/specular/gloss as it is applied to woods nearly as well as I do other surfaces.
Tutorials for texturing kind of teach you backwards. Trying to learn X material should be setup up in so and so fashion. You end up with only the how and not the why, which is far more important. If you have to ask your self 'how how do I get my material to look like X', then you probably don't really understand what…
I always feel a little bad when people reference that tutorial, I don't think I was a very good texture artist at the time I did it, but I'm glad it was helpful in some way :\ to figure out how to go about texturing old wood (or any other material you do) you should probably start by figuring out roughly what type of wood…