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    Today we have something called "kiln drying" ...,.as well as "Miconizol". I've put wide short pieces of klin dried wood
    in buckets of water and left them for weeks. The bit of expansion was so small it was impossible to measure with a tape
    rule.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Michelson View Post
    The students keep finding designs online from Wayfair and such that show miters and framed herringbones and all kinds of things that probably work great with bricks but not so good with wood.
    Sounds like some parental controls are needed on their browsers ;-) They do realize a lot of that furniture is veneered cardboard, right? Seriously though, this design cries out for a substrate with veneer.
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    Parquet floors are not lap jointed but tongue and groove, they are short pieces with no real expansion forces to contend with. Herculaneum floors only show wear where the slaves were chained to a wall or post!
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    He is planning to use regular hardwood. Never seen a piece of wood that did not expand in water, however quickly it was dried.
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    Quote Originally Posted by William Fretwell View Post
    He is planning to use regular hardwood. Never seen a piece of wood that did not expand in water, however quickly it was dried.
    Teak does not expand much because of its high oil content.
    "Anything seems possible when you don't know what you're doing."

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    Quote Originally Posted by William Fretwell View Post
    Parquet floors are not lap jointed but tongue and groove, they are short pieces with no real expansion forces to contend with. Herculaneum floors only show wear where the slaves were chained to a wall or post!
    Well, I'm not gonna blame the slaves. But, if it went to court it would be an interesting "tessari case-um".
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