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To: Ilaine who wrote (53045)	7/5/2000 3:42:35 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

>>>What would be wrong with air-drying the lumber in my garage?<<< Well, nothing. 1) Do you want the wood? For what? You can buy it if you have a specific use. (I am beginning to think you have Possessionasia, just like Paul.) Are you planning to build something? It takes a lot of space. I takes approximately 1 year per inch of thickness to air dry. It is still better to have it kiln dried, as is the wood you buy. There is a difference in finished furniture, between air and kiln dried wood. Kiln is dryer and more stable. 2) The wood "can" get bugs. 3) It is reallly, really, in the way. 4) It will be milled in large pieces, or used to be, like slabs or cants of 8/4 rough size ~ they are heavy as hell and difficult for an amateur to use in the first steps of woodworking. Need big equipment. I mean, I admire your spunk, honey, but there are practical problems to this romance. I can't even think of them all. Do you have a 15" planer? 12"? Table saw? Joiner? What the heck are you thinking? It is not easy to handle this stuff, and it has to be stickered and stacked carefully. If you decide to build an armoire or breadboard, let the yards store their wood for you and go buy it from them. You are not a career woodworker, or even an ardent amateur. It's a toy. A commodity. I got nothing against that, but you must realize collecting things to have them is uhm...... a hobby of liabilities and embarrasments and divorces and regrets and nuisances, and get yourself innoculated. Have you gotten rid of your spikes yet? "What would be wrong with air-drying the lumber in my garage?" Nothing, and quite a lot. Talk to the Wood Store guys. They've got some in their garages, just like Paul and all his idiot buddies. How the hell big is your garage? You gonna move the cars out for standing tools? C'mon, honey.