Thoughts on Drying wood, and how I do it

[Greenberg Woods]

Very interesting thread Ben. I might have missed it but how long do you leave the blocks wrapped in the plastic? You are just coming up on your 10 year anniversary in wood so it can't be that long. I just finished up a table for my daughter from some cherry that I stashed in an open semi trailer about ten years ago. It was DRY. I also made a couple of saya from Magnolia that has been in the open loft area of my house for ten years and it was DRY. In both cases the wood was sawed into 1 inch boards.
I also have thrown some small block of mesquite and some hickory blocks into my bottom desk drawer for a couple of years. I vacuum packed the mesquite with my Vacmaster food packer just to keep the bugs out of it. It seems to have dried in a vacuum bag. How can it dry without air movement? Anyway I sent pieces of all this wood off to K&G but have not yet worked with it. Time will tell. Thanks again for this thread.

I'll slowly take moisture readings and remove plastic over what will probably be 8 or 10 months.

And plastic is really quite vapor permeable. Moisture can cross through it