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adb:
The RH in the winter where I live is 10%. Bugger all I can do about it. I make sure I seal the ends and back of my staves, but I've had no warping or deep checking issues.

wood_bandit99:
Rh in a room. It, I checked it, is at 36% right now. The winters here it is more like 20%

adb:
And the extremely low RH in the winter is why I don't make bows from Dec - Mar.

wood_bandit99:
That makes sense. I will do that. But how long should I wait to take off the bark?

unkieford:
Not trying to derail the OP, just trying to learn more....
     In my lovely (cough) sonoran desert home, we've seen RH as low as 2%. (No, that's not a mis-key) I've been told that it's simply not physically possible for it to go any lower than that. We can also see it up in the mid 90% range during monsoon season.
It makes for amusing wood working conditions.
It also explains (in part) why I have never bought any raw staves to work on. They might very well be wrecked before I can even unwrap 'em.
Anybody have a way to maintain humidity for storage, short of a walk in humidor?

---Ford---

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