We usually see more sunken joints in thewinter, as the wood is drier so there is overall more shrinkage.

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Strength properties, such as toughness and impact strength, are reduced in wood with incipient decay.

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Many finishes are so thin that they do very little good at all in slowing the moisture change.

Always check the MC when you have splitting to make sure that the MC is not the main problem.

Where we sometimes see problems is that the bed plate of the planer will wear in the center.

When you see end cracks, we know that the MC has changed.