Gentlemen,
Had a great sunday and milled a bunch of walnut with my dad. The moisture content was over 25% and now it must sit, awaiting a time when the wood has less water and Jon has more money so as to build a bar and stock it with nice scotch and have the whole set up overseen by a large LCD flat screen.
(happily, I figure the timing for the both the wood moisture and the money will collide nicely at about year and a half)
So now my wood sits, awaiting it's phoenix-like return to glory and arguments about college football.
Dad said to seal the ends with a nice oil based paint (preferably white) and check it about monthly to reseal any cracks that might form. I bought some oil based white primer for this. Please stop me if I'm about to do something stupid.
The wood sits in my garage, and is making the garage smell delicious. It is stacked, thickest and longest on the bottom, each board separated by peices of lath. Please stop me if I've done something stupid.
Any other tips for storing and curing this very pretty wood? In a year and a half's time I would like my only worries to be Jay Cutler's offensive line protection (Go Bears) and my beloved Iowa State Cyclones' (quit laughing, they're 3-0) conference realignment concerns...
Had a great sunday and milled a bunch of walnut with my dad. The moisture content was over 25% and now it must sit, awaiting a time when the wood has less water and Jon has more money so as to build a bar and stock it with nice scotch and have the whole set up overseen by a large LCD flat screen.
(happily, I figure the timing for the both the wood moisture and the money will collide nicely at about year and a half)
So now my wood sits, awaiting it's phoenix-like return to glory and arguments about college football.
Dad said to seal the ends with a nice oil based paint (preferably white) and check it about monthly to reseal any cracks that might form. I bought some oil based white primer for this. Please stop me if I'm about to do something stupid.
The wood sits in my garage, and is making the garage smell delicious. It is stacked, thickest and longest on the bottom, each board separated by peices of lath. Please stop me if I've done something stupid.
Any other tips for storing and curing this very pretty wood? In a year and a half's time I would like my only worries to be Jay Cutler's offensive line protection (Go Bears) and my beloved Iowa State Cyclones' (quit laughing, they're 3-0) conference realignment concerns...