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by Kim » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:40 am
In the same vein as Mathew's post, I know of a very knowledgeable builder/tonewood seller in the USA who advocates NOT storing tonewood in a controlled environment. He stickers and end-grain seals his wood and allows it be exposed to all the changes that nature can throw at it, under a shed roof, for as long as he can. A few weeks out from a build, he selects his sets and takes them into the RH controlled build room.
He explains that as the wood expands and contracts with the changes out in the shed, it does so to lesser degree each time and, as Mathew suggest, relieves a lot of the stresses. After cycling for a few years, the wood settles right down, sort of like baking spruce I would imagine.
Apparently, a lot of the Spanish masters simply stored their wood directly under the roof of an open sided shed, here it would be exposed to repeated seasons of heat from the blazing Spanish sun and moisture from rains all the while being ventilation by any available breeze.
Cheers
Kim
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Kim on Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:52 am, edited 2 times in total.