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Guide to Timber Species & Shrinkage

 
Lucas Holmgren
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This has some really good information about timber species and shrinkage for timber framing. It dispenses with the idea of Kiln Dried being superior and really dives into what matters. Housed joinery and green timbers seems to be the trick.

https://arrowtimber.com/post-beam-timbers-drying-wood-species-shrinkage/

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