So which method for establishing a known EMC do you prefer? David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com I've oven dried pieces of spruce in the past in an effort to measure MC directly, but I've never been able to reach an identifiable end point where the weight would stabilize after a period of time. It would go along at a rate and then slow considerably. It was probably dry when the rate of weight loss slowed - but it was so hard to identify. I suspect volatile organic compounds escaping the wood accounted for the very slow rate of weight loss after the water had escaped - but again, I found it very difficult to identify the point at which I could call the wood dry. Terry Farrell
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