If a \o6 15 cut \nr Pour Fhrouqk 

 tcnkr?, ds \hf shrmk<a<5c is diontf 

 ^hf »"m6. Jhe dn^le at centre Will 

 b«co»^e less fi)<in ^O^n drying _ 

 Cllso^ fhe Wood of th? outer layers of 

 \he hef bemcj less conaolidated, shrinks 

 more fUan ihal near the cer.tre- 



B 



iShovVs ihrmkd!<^e of plank, 

 from above Cdu5c. 



B- D. on cjuarfer 

 AC . on b«3ck - 



5ee Tredrfold-, Joinery, Editioa 



7 Ency. Brit.,. Knight F.A, 91 Vol 

 Phit Trans expenmcnC oh Oak, 

 also, Vol evil p5i69- ' ^^^ * Beech 



Cul: on bdcfc or parallel to rin^s 



shrunk up to 14/" of /^idfK and 

 Wdrped, the Sdnne cut on quarter 3-?^ /' 

 of Vv'idtK A did not Warp- 



