Makes sense. :)
I noticed a similar approach in a recent Chris Schwarz blog entry --
http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog
/northwest-timber-seeks-lumber-perfection">http://www.popularwoodworking.com
/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/northwest-timber-seeks-lumber-
perfection
There are no new ideas.... ;)
--Travis
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Thomas Conroy via OldTools <
oldtools@s...> wrote:
> Travis (Gye Greene)gave his "2c worth on stickering: I don't believe in
> it, because I'm
> creating internal stresses in the wood during the drying process. I'd
> rather have a lower yield, but with stable wood that doesn't cup should it
> ever get wet. Also, drying "loose" lets the wood cup, rather than split."
>
> Someone, maybe Walter Rose in "The Vilage Carpenter," wrote about how the
> first stage in drying pitsawed slabs or thick planks was to lean them
> against long horizontal poles, forming sort of tent-like or tunnell-like
> structures. I think the axis was oriented to let the wind blow down the
> tunnel formed. The writer used to play in the structures formed. After a
> few months or a few years, I forget which, the timber would be stickered
> for the rest of its year-per-inch drying time. This sounds like the intent
> of the stickering, at least in rural English practice, was more to save
> space than to keep the boards dead flat.
>
>
> Tom Conroy
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