Selecting wood for my Soil project. These are the candidates for the top The Plan 17:45 Baking the wood for 45 min 150 °C, starting from cold oven. Then 30 min 180 °C (carefully monitoring what's going on) Execution: 18:30 Extended to 60 min in 150 °C, as things started to happen just after 35 - 40 min - Fresh, nice smell of wood. I acts like newly cut green wood! Storage in the outside shed since 1995 seams to have had no seasoning effect on the wood. 19:00 A lot of resin and fumes is still coming out of the wood after 60 min in 150 °C so I continued another 20 min. 19:45 Continued to 2 hours in 150 °C until it stopped loosing weight, but i think there is still bound water in the wood Rising to 180-190 °C Monitoring so it wont burn and overcook... 20:30 Oven off Leaving the wood in the oven to cool down with the oven Total time 2 hours 45 min
I think I was too gentle to the wood? Or another possibility is that my MC% meter is picking up resin and gives false readings on this spruce. This was also what I was thinking when tuning/monitoring my ongoing project, because humidity in air and MC% in the top did not correlate. which it did on the back plate and other pieces of wood. The MC meter showed 4 - 4,5 % after the cooking (9,5 % before) Photos taken before and after:     |
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