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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
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 11:58:51 1985
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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