Since there isn’t to be more that a 2% moisture content difference between any two boards, and the lumber MC should be 7% – 8% MC how am I to bring the extremes of 5.7% to 9.2% MC to a 7 – 8%? This lumber has been acclimating to my shop for 2 and 1/2 months. Am I supposed to be using lumber for furniture according to my moisture meter reading or according to the EMC chart? Thanks to those who can help me.
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I'm not sure I understand where those technically precise measurements and those pernickety rules came from Curt? It's never made a blind bit of difference to me. If it's 6%, it's 6%, and if it's 12%, it's 12%, and if I'm working with stuff, some of which is 6%, and some of which is 12% I just let it all hang around the workshop for a wee while to equalise a bit and bash out a bit of furniture. In the end I still have to build a piece that might be baked in the dry desert heat of Arizona, or spend three months in a container on the deck of a ship headed to Australia from Norway, via the America's, South Africa, Bangkok (sp) and Fiji. So, simply put, I (and you) need to cover those extremes of potential humidity in the design and construction. Slainte, RJ.
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