Q. What causes buckle in veneer? Is it something that my supplier or that I am doing wrong?

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Q. We made some built-in furniture last spring with Douglas-fir. Now, about six months later, the wood is dripping sap on the carpet. We cleaned the sap off the wood surfaces, but now sap is oozing again. What happened and what can we do?

Q. We have trouble controlling the wood’s moisture content, which means relative humidity, in our storage building and in our shop. Can you talk about how heating air lowers the humidity?

Q. When we nail near the end of a piece, or nail or screw in the side edge, we often see a small split created by the fastener. Why is this and what can we do? With MDF, the fastener in an edge seems to create a bump in the surface of the board and also create a separation in the wood around the fastener.

Q. What makes a 2 x 2 inch square (about 24 inches long) that initially has the sides at perfect 90 degrees so it has a square profile become slightly diamond shaped with the sides no longer at 90 degrees to each other?

Q. When lumber comes out of the kiln at 6 percent MC, shell and core, and is then put into an open shed, still stickered, protected from rain and sun, how much moisture change will occur in a week? How much if we un-sticker it first? How much if we wrap in plastic?

Q. We are confused about the best and most accurate way to measure the MC of dry lumber that we purchase and that we also dry ourselves. Can you help?

Q. I made some decorative gates with cypress, but now after two years, I am seeing some rot. Isn’t cypress decay resistant naturally? I did notice that the annual growth rings were widely spaced compared to cypress I used before. What other species are rot or decay resistant?