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Pete,
Did the same thing with some birch logs two years ago, split in quarters, cut the quarters about three plugs long and dried by my woodstove about a month (I only run the stove about 4 days a week). I got two good blanks out of one quarter, had cracking on each end that cost me about one blank of three. The plugs I made don't show any signs of cracking.
I noticed that when you leave them round they split more, so I suppose that splitting them into quarters relieves some of the stress.
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