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<blockquote data-quote="kennyg" data-source="post: 3017296" data-attributes="member: 27341"><p>I have been building things out of wood as my day job the last 15 years, and unfortunately this is not true. Kiln dried wood does move with moisture changes. There are charts that tell you how much each species of wood will grow or shrink based on the moisture content of the wood, and I have found them to be pretty accurate. The same species will also move differently depending on if it is quarter sawn or flat sawn. </p><p></p><p>I like to test things for myself, so I have a few ~18" wide solid wood panels (flat sawn) sitting around in my shop that I measure and record a few times a year. Most of the time they are sitting at 18-1/4" wide, but the extreme spreads are from 18-1/8" wide in the winter to 18-3/8" wide when it gets really humid here in the summer. Quarter sawn seems to move about half that amount. They don't move much at all lengthwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kennyg, post: 3017296, member: 27341"] I have been building things out of wood as my day job the last 15 years, and unfortunately this is not true. Kiln dried wood does move with moisture changes. There are charts that tell you how much each species of wood will grow or shrink based on the moisture content of the wood, and I have found them to be pretty accurate. The same species will also move differently depending on if it is quarter sawn or flat sawn. I like to test things for myself, so I have a few ~18" wide solid wood panels (flat sawn) sitting around in my shop that I measure and record a few times a year. Most of the time they are sitting at 18-1/4" wide, but the extreme spreads are from 18-1/8" wide in the winter to 18-3/8" wide when it gets really humid here in the summer. Quarter sawn seems to move about half that amount. They don't move much at all lengthwise. [/QUOTE]
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