Got a Wagner Orion pinless moisture meter from Lee Valley recently. I like it. I have a table top in my basement unfinished for the past 9 months. I keep my relative humidity between 40 and 55%. The cherry lumber was kiln dried from a quality sawmill and after a month or so I glued up the top which consisted of 2 boards from different trees. When I measure the relative humidity of one board it is 9.7, ( I like my boards between 7 and 10% in Pennsylvania ), but the other board is at 11.6%. I called Wagner and they said same species boards ( such as cherry ) can have different densities ( there is a density setting for cherry on the meter ) and they could actually have similar moisture content. Any others have experience with this?
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