Originally Posted by
FenceFurniture
Yesterday I went to Mathew's Timber and bought some laminated ¼sawn Vic Ash 285x38mm for a desk I'm going to build. Not being in the habit of having a Moisture Meter.....I only remembered it when I was too far from home to turn around. :doh:Well, I figured that buying commercially available timber wasn't going to be too much of a risk.
I measured the MC just now, using a SG of 0.68 and at 19mm & 6mm depth they are reading around 7.5-9% which seems pretty low to me. I would have though they might spend less time in the kiln rather than more? Perhaps it's the case that they'd rather sell the timber with no more realistic shrinkage, only possibly a slight expansion? Maybe Ken might have a comment on that?
I'm pretty confident in the timber - after all, these would be sold to joineries making benchtops etc, so I doubt they should give me problems.