Popular Woodworking Magazine » Lumber http://www.popularwoodworking.com Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Fri, 17 May 2013 23:00:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 How to Calculate Wood Shrinkage and Expansionhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/tricks/how-to-calculate-wood-shrinkage-and-expansion http://www.popularwoodworking.com/tricks/how-to-calculate-wood-shrinkage-and-expansion#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:49:01 +0000 Article Index http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=232331
How to Calculate Wood Shrinkage and Expansion

Wood movement can ruin a seemingly well-constructed project. Luckily getting ahead of the material and calculating wood shrinkage and expansion is fairly easy – all you need to do is multiply three numbers together. Here’s how to find them. Step 1: Measure the board’s width. ● Know that wider boards expand and contract more than … Read more »

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How I Buy Wood & Why I'm Weird

Compared to many of my woodworking friends, I buy wood and treat it a little differently than most. Many of my friends have a significant stock of lumber on hand, from a garage-full to a few barn-fulls. When they find good lumber, they buy it. In many ways, this is an excellent strategy because every … Read more »

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Quartersawn Animation

Quartersawn white oak is one of my favorite woods, and we’re fortunate in Cincinnati that the largest source for this wood in North America is just a couple hours away. Frank Miller Lumber in Union City, Indiana has been producing this wood for more than one hundred years, and it’s worth a visit, as Glen … Read more »

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