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Re: "Grainy" wood

Author: Julian ibiza
Date: 2023-06-20 10:22

There are two sides to seasoning wood . One is lowering its moisture content to the desired level and the second is just letting the timber sit for years allowing tensions within the wood to relax . This second part is where standards tend to have dropped, although it is obviously against the manufacturers interests to cut corners here too much .

I won't work with Iroko anymore, because typically you can pass a dead straight length of it through the saw and what comes out are a couple of bananas, so the hidden tensions within poorly seasoned timber can be quite something .

But even if the wood has been well seasoned and is relatively free from flaws,
making it into a tube and wetting it on the inside is just a lot to ask of it .

Julian Griffiths
Tel. 34 696 798 853

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