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username_unavailable@lemmy.world 10 months agoThere’s lot’s of people learning in this thread.
Untreated lumber will soak up water and swell, the dry in the sun and shrink. This process will allow natural twists to reassert themselves and stress and strain will warp into the wood.
nottelling@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Right, so how do you account for that in the design? In my photo, I didn’t account for it at all. The square cuts have changed and it’s failing. I can resolve it with braces as suggested, but now I’m wondering if those braces will change and it’ll go out of square again.