Bill Adamsen
01-06-2018, 12:35 PM
Don't believe wood moves?
I was baking this morning and when I pulled out the board I use for rolling out dough I was a bit startled to see just how much the wood had moved. If I am feeling particularly industrious when doing breadboard ends I don't run the mortise all the way to the end ... hence in the photo with dramatic shrinkage the mortise is not visible. I can assure you these were flush like the second photo just a month or so ago.
The wood in the board showing shrinkage was I believe Honey locust ... I had a local sawmill cut a number of cants for a specific project and these pieces were around so I used them. I can see the breadboard end is quarter sawn though likely the rest are a mix of flatsawn and quartersawn. Locust around here doesn't grow terribly large and getting the cants was a real chore.
I was baking this morning and when I pulled out the board I use for rolling out dough I was a bit startled to see just how much the wood had moved. If I am feeling particularly industrious when doing breadboard ends I don't run the mortise all the way to the end ... hence in the photo with dramatic shrinkage the mortise is not visible. I can assure you these were flush like the second photo just a month or so ago.
The wood in the board showing shrinkage was I believe Honey locust ... I had a local sawmill cut a number of cants for a specific project and these pieces were around so I used them. I can see the breadboard end is quarter sawn though likely the rest are a mix of flatsawn and quartersawn. Locust around here doesn't grow terribly large and getting the cants was a real chore.