Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site hercules.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!teklds!hercules!barrys From: barrys@hercules.UUCP (Barry Steel) Newsgroups: net.rec.wood Subject: Re: Rusting machines vs. dry wood Message-ID: <641@hercules.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 11:58:51 EST Article-I.D.: hercules.641 Posted: Mon Oct 28 11:58:51 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:19:13 EST References: <586@aicchi.UUCP> <157@opus.UUCP> Reply-To: barrys@hercules.UUCP (Barry Steel) Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 12 My solution was to move from Wyoming to Oregon. It's amazing how much that dry, cracking wood swells back up. Too bad you can't stop it when it returns to the "correct" (ie. original) size. :-( I've seen a lot of "professionally" hand-made furniture and such that seens to survive quite well, it looks like is has been laquered (it certainly wasn't oiled). I wonder what they use on the commercially produced "Scandanvian" furniture - looks like an oil finish and I presume it holds up well or the American public would not buy it. barry steel