Bonespurfoundation

Bonespurfoundation t1_jawkfcp wrote

Wether it’s buckets or barrels or ships, watertight carpentry is based on 1. Straight grained wood that has no knots which generally means old growth trees and 2. Splitting the wood along the grain so as to preserve its integrity.

When done this way the wood swells and contracts in highly predictable ways. Can’t do that with most of the wood that’s available today because there’s very little old growth forest remaining.

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