How do you guy deal with EXTREME Climate Changes.

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Between you shops location say in Florida or the Humid Southeat, and say a Customer who is in DRY Arizona.

Warpage is the question??
 
That is specificly why I dont agree with having the wood in a climate controlled environment from day one. I let my woods dry a couple years or so in a room in my house. Then I start processing them and I store them in an unheated uninsulated garage for the first several months of turnings. I want them to get hot and cold daily as well as the moisture swings. I may loose a few extra pieces that way but I figure better to loose a piece of wood then than a whole butt or shaft and the customer who bought it. Chris.
 
Properly seasoned wood doesn't warp. Five or more years of changing seasons is the only thing you need.
 
Chris Byrne said:
That is specificly why I dont agree with having the wood in a climate controlled environment from day one. I let my woods dry a couple years or so in a room in my house. Then I start processing them and I store them in an unheated uninsulated garage for the first several months of turnings. I want them to get hot and cold daily as well as the moisture swings. I may loose a few extra pieces that way but I figure better to loose a piece of wood then than a whole butt or shaft and the customer who bought it. Chris.
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I do the same but I'm in California ( between the ocean and the desert.
Problem is if you are in the desert or the swamp. You don't get that much humidity changes there I think.
Humidity here averages to about 40-45%. Gets as high as 70+ and as low as 10%. Right now it's down to 30% or so. I don't cut wood when humidity is lower than 35% or higher than 60%.
 
I don't believe in keeping your wood in a climatized inviornment. Here in Illinois we have all 4 seasons & my wood experiences those changes...JER
 
i take my wood to Death Valley in the summer and let it sit in the sand,then in winter i take it to Antarctica and let it settle into the snow drifts.in the fall it goes to Lybia for a few months and then it goes back to the cold in Siberia where i bury it in the bottom of an glacier where it sits for 3 months.

after 8.5 years of constant rotation in these spots i then start cutting it from 1.5" dowells only removing .005" each pass while waiting 6 months between passes.:grin-square:


just kidding,mine sits in a gargae where the temp ranges from 60-80 degrees.
 
masonh said:
i take my wood to Death Valley in the summer and let it sit in the sand,then in winter i take it to Antarctica and let it settle into the snow drifts.in the fall it goes to Lybia for a few months and then it goes back to the cold in Siberia where i bury it in the bottom of an glacier where it sits for 3 months.

after 8.5 years of constant rotation in these spots i then start cutting it from 1.5" dowells only removing .005" each pass while waiting 6 months between passes.:grin-square:


just kidding,mine sits in a gargae where the temp ranges from 60-80 degrees.
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Well I guess you are just not dedicated. LOL
 
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