GEORGE HAS SPOKEN!

no need to carry on this thread or method of drying

Tony Manella
ndd1"at"ptd.net (remove "at")

"George" George@least wrote in message
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"Owen Lowe" wrote in message
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What would be most interesting to me concerning the drying results above
would be a side-by-side comparison of two similarly sized and shaped
forms from the same section of tree. Treat both the same with the taping
and bagging, but treat only one with the alcohol. I'd give it a go
myself, but I don't have a scale...


As I have said before, I have done exactly that, with successive cubes
from 1x1 cuts, to make distortion measurement easy and valid. The answer
is the one I keep giving. Not only is there no scientific validity to the
assertions made by proponents - the speculative mechanisms violate known
scientific laws - it makes no difference whether the piece is soaked or
not. I keep suggesting that Fred take up the challenge and do it for
himself, and instead we see what he posted yesterday, a documentation of
evaporation.

Note that the piece is protected from rapid loss by control of relative
humidity, a method which has been used to control loss from drying wood
for as long as man has cut it, and you find the real answer. Just as the
LDD types who turn thin and experience little failure. If you turn thin,
you won't, unless you throw the thing out into the desert, or an
air-conditioned home, which is about the same.