Boards and MC?

[Kegan]

I picked some red oak boards up last night- nice straight grain, good for a couple bows. However, the MC is about 7%. I've had a number of failures before from boards like these at the fades (the wood jsut delaminated at a point and gave out). Is there anything I can do to "rehumidify" the baords? I sore I read somehting about it in the TBB, but I can't find it, and my father says that kiln dired wood can't be.

There are a few steps I know of for working around it (after the many failures), but I'd prefer to be using a piece with an 9-10% MC.

[George Tsoukalas]

No matter what you do the board will eventually take on the humidity of its surroundings Keenan. You could leave it in the bathroom. I would think that 7% is pretty good for red oak. Are you sure your past boards didn't break because of grain issues? Jawge

[Kegan]

Thanks, that's what I was hoping.

Some were grain issues, others were just low moisture content (tillering a backed, overbuilt flatbow and have it jsut give out suddenly), especially during the winter months.