Owen Lawrence wrote:
Last night I was watching "Dirty Jobs" on Discovery Channel. I missed
the beginning of this segment, but tuned in on the guys microwave/vacuum
kiln drying old growth river lumber. Cherry. Looked like they had a good
12" to 14" wide (and thick) slabs at least ten feet long. They used high
tech equipment to find these logs.

Then the logs were sliced up into veneer and glued to particle board.

Breaks my heart.

If that's the same grey wood that Nahm used on a table project
(reclaimed wood from the bottom of a river), the stuff was ugly to
begin with and no great loss. It was wood from Mordor.

R