Drying wood

[ProfessorM]

Got a whole bunch on apple drying since last year in the cellar. Makes really nice needles. Still got a 10" dia. piece of apple 4' long ready to be cut up when I remember it. Going to try some darters, maybe.

[Fishpart]

A few years back I made some darters for a swap out of black birch. As far as I know none of them split and at least Christian got fish on them.

I cut the logs to about 18", split them in 1/8ths and dried them in the cellar by the woodstove. I cut the checked ends off and worked the material down to size by splitting it closer to turning size and viola plugs were born. I did have a lot of waste, but it was firewood to begin with anyway...

[ed morini]

I really don't think drying or how dry the stickers makes much difference, the water in the green stock will migrate to the stickers above and will also dry out during the process. What I have found is that the area under the sticker captures the moisture and mildew begins to grow resulting in the "sticker stain". I have had no problems with the pvc to date.