What's the Difference Between Rift Sawn and Cedar?

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A tree is typically, depending on the species, anywhere between 65 to 70 percent water. There's basically two kinds of water: free water and bound water. In choosing how you're going to cut a board also plays into the next step, which is drying. If you build with wet material, if you're joining boards and stuff like that, they are going to off-cast water as they do over time slowly. And as they off-cast, they're going to warp.

What’s the customary 5th Anniversary gift? Apparently… WOOD! So we wrangled our favorite sawmill owner/operator of LA’s Angel City Lumber, Jeff Perry – who rescues downed street trees from the chipper and turns them into beautiful planks, boards, stumps and chonks. We cover everything from forest management to 2x4s, wood grain, burls, bog logs, sawdust, tree disease, asparagus tips, salvaged lumber, kiln drying, Westward expansion, Indigenous forest management, cedar whiff, and how working with wood changes your relationship to death.

Angel City Lumber website

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Other episodes you may enjoy: Bryology (MOSS), Dendrology (TREES) Encore, Mycology (FUNGI), Indigenous Fire Ecology (GOOD FIRE), Carobology (NOT CHOCOLATE TREES)

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