"Christopher Horner" wrote in message
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I'm in Southern California and SWMBO has prodded me to stop acquiring
tools and gadgets, and start actually building something useful. In that
vein, I need to ask a question about wood and weather.

I understand that wood needs to 'acclimatize' when brought home, to
stabilize in other words. My question is where should I let it
acclimatize? In the workshop, which is an uncontrolled environment (read:
a detached garage with no HVAC), or inside the house where the finished
wood product (decorative face frame for cleated alcove shelves) will be
used?

YMMV but I have always kept it in the location that I will be cutting and
building. You are never going to be able to completely control the
environment. Keeping it in side and building in another with a different
climate may be a waste of time as typically it is in the work environment
long enough that it will start moving again.
Plan ahead for wood movement on your projects.