N. Thornton wrote:

anon wrote in message . ..

On 5 Aug 2004 11:14:11 -0000, Jerry Built
wrote:


. Look at the position of the knots,

you don't want ones on one face of the stiles only, as the knot
will tend to cause distortion on drying - the timber will try
to "bend" towards that face. Knots on the edge, or that go
straight through, are OK.


The day has come to buy the doors, can you explain the above a little
more please?


a small percentage of knots shrink at a different rate to the rest of
the wood, resulting in warping.

Sound cobblers to me. Knots that shrink just fall out.

Waroing is simply caused by differential expansion of the wood, and is
almost inevitable with crap like Pine.

Unless you carefully select quarter sawn planks (which don't actully
look good grain wise) you wll get warping between summer and winter
humidity levels.

The reaosn teh victorians paibnted pine is because its crap. It moves,
it has knots that bleed resin, requiring knottong to be applied, and its
very poor n abrasion resistance.

If they wanted a decent wood, they used mahogany. Oak isn't bad either,
and things like Maplem Yew, Elm, Cherry and Pear are all much better
loolking and more stable than Pine.

Ther is only ONE reason people use pine, and thats cos its cheap and
grows fast.

As for staining it? Shudder. Just a stupid fashion.

Avocado bath suite anyone?