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Cooking wood in your kitchen can produce results that rival specialty kilns.

Luthiers have long used roasted or tempered wood in stringed instruments because the roasting process pre-stresses the wood and caramelizes the sugars, sealing the pores and rendering them more resistant to moisture.


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