Drying pinblock before stringing

[Gerald Posey]

> Let me understand this.  You have a piece of wood with a hole drilled in
> the middle.  You saturate it with water and the wood expands away from the
> hole and the hole gets larger.  Now lets drill five holes in a close
> pattern.  Saturate the wood with water.  Now the wood expands away from
the
> hole, except when expanding away from the hole directs the expansion
toward
> another hole.  The expansion stops short of the adjacent hole and reverses
> direction in order that that hole will also get larger.  Doesn't make
> sense.

Visualize the five holes drawn on the surface of a balloon and then blow it
up.
Gerald