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.
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…