Is spring or fall better to cut walnut and mill?That is mold, you are trapping moisture beneath the glue. Water has to escape!!!
Use Anchor Seal End sealer.
Put on the ends of the slabs, not on the surface.
You want the moisture to escape through the surface and not through the ends.
I would sand all that glue off and start over by putting edge seal on the ends, then put the wood away for curing in a nice dry location away from sunlight.
Spoken from many years of curing high value gun stock blanks.
You need a moisture meter also. About as low as I can go is 11 percent, here on the wet Olympic Peninsula. The stock blanks below were cut in 1995 and are about ready for stockmaking now. Air drying is best for stock wood. Kiln drying damages the internal fibers of the blanks. Does not take as long if you are in a dry area such as Boise or Eastern Oregon.
Moisture Meter. The wood is Pacific Bigleaf Maple.
I buy Anchor Seal from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003A08DU6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Ok. Thank you. I’m going to put it in my kitchen and use it as my dinner table this week. I’ll probably try using it without glue on the face. It will dry very slow in the house
It actually has the bottom still glued. Would that be bad to have that glued and the top not glued? I’m planing on leaving the plastic cover on it to protect it
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