[Woodcarver] Carving "terribly dry and crumbly" wood

[Jill Ellis]

Or the wood is from a tree that was dead before it was cut..


J
At 09:47 AM 7/1/2009, you wrote:

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>    Most times terribly dry wood is similar to (dry rot) and caused 

> by drying the wood to quickly or it is extremely old and been 

> stored in conditions that caused some stucture changes in the wood. 

> Punky wood is the natural condition of wet rot after the wood is 

> dry like Jim said a stabilizer has to be added to keep the cells of 

> the wood bound together.

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>   Chris Howard

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