Also some advice on wood selection and construction for wood fencing.

Also questions about particleboard stability and dealing with tensionwood.

Also questions about spots that don’t take stain and how weather damages trees.

Also answering questions about sharpening to the correct angle and using fasteners without splitting.

Gene Wengert answers questions about using whiskey barrels for furniture and also questions about green color in walnut, a solar wood dryer, paint on bacterial infected wood, color variations in oak.

Second installment of Wood Doctor’s original column covers symptoms, diagnoses, and cures for furniture ailments.

Gene Wengert, the Wood Doctor, has been answering readers questions since 1979; here’s his first column.

Plus the Wood Doctor answers questions about how wood burns, and why spruce is preferred for musical instruments.

The Wood Doctor also answers questions about bumps in wooden flooring, and how thick 4/4 lumber is supposed to be.

The Wood Doctor also answers questions about black locust. estimating lumber weight, and achieving white wood in drying.