What's the Difference Between Rift Sawn and Cedar?

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.

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