Lumber Update Episode 123 Difficult to Dry Woods | Featured Species: Sapele
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- A word of warning on this episode. New levels of nerdery on display here. If I had a white lab coat I would have worn it while recording. To sum up, woods with a higher T/R ratio will be harder to dry. But if you are like me and want to know why a higher T/R ratio is harder to dry, keep watching to dive into some organic chemistry and cellular structure.
Also I feature Sapele this month. A much more mainstream species but one worth looking at closely due to how it has taken over the Mahogany market. A reminder that Walnut tier supporters on Patreon will be getting the fancy Sapele sticker with all of the details I discuss in this episode.
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I already listened to this episode on spotify podcast, but had to come watch for the visuals. Thank you, Shannon! You are one of my favorite wood pros/podcasters and I value your insight!
Sapele is my current favorite wood. Yes, pretty dusty, but easy to work with. Post below warns of tear out, but I don't recall any tear out. And readily available (make sure its quarter-sawn or rift sawn). My finish for sapele is 4 coats shellac, 4 coats AquaCoat grain filler, then water based poly.
Loving this series Shannon - appreciate the video and have a great day in the shop.
Here in Oregon, the locally owned lumberyard/ home improvement center sells dimensional lumber, both KD (around here ~16-20% moisture) and "Standard & Better" (~25-30% moisture).
sounds about right. I haven't put a moisture meter to any of the stuff out here but then again why would it matter....if used for construction purposes.
Thanks for this rich and integrated wood tech nerd-out. Professional documentation tends toward dry and academic, yet your discussion connects the (fascinating) science to the boots on the ground world of woodwork. You've just increased UA-cam's IQ. Mine too... I hope. 😎
Love it all. Great job and great information.
Shannon the cookie holding a lot of moisture is counter intuitive to me. I always understood that moisture escapes from end grain much faster( hence coating the endgrain to equalize moisture transfer. ) A cookie seems to have a disproportionate amount of endgrain. So it seems it might dry too fast. What am I missing?
No that's right you aren't missing anything. Did I say something to lead to believe the opposite??
@@RenaissanceWW I was working on making the shop bents from HTS while listening and you were talking about cookies. I guess I was a little distracted when you said a 24” round could stay wet in the middle for a very very long time. I did miss something. When I listened again I realized you were at that point actually talking about in log form not cookies.
I'm using/used Sapele for trays and ultimately el. guitar neck (my first one). Most of the pieces i have are 15 cm wide , quarter or rift sawn. It's a cross grained wood that does surprise you while hand planing. It likes to tear out pretty deeply so i would be careful. In the begining take small cuts trying to learn particular piece to minimize tear out while planing. Reasonably hard, porous but not too much. I like it. . Like the smell, and when got right, it planes/scrape nicely. P.s. i hate that f*** red dust while sawing 😄, same
At the same time i have Luan but also Meranti and at least where i got them, they are different in smell and appearance. Both are pretty lightweight (Luan is lighter) , but Meranti is just gorgeous wood. Looks really nice, lot of modular (or something similar) rays and it hand planes like a butter. If it had a little bit better ding resistance it would be my favourite wood (other then ebony 😁).
Absolutely no heavy cuts with it. I find skewing the plane in accordance to the directional tendency of the end grain overcomes the interlocked stubborness. Have on video on that somewhere on this channel.
thanks...nerd is good