Turning Green Wood into dry handles...

I purchased a maple slab from a guy who is in the business of drying thick pieces of wood to sell. I mentioned the "year per inch" to him and he said generally if you just have it sitting under a tarp outside that is about the average. But if you bring it into your garage or into your house it dries quicker. He also told me to put a fan on aimed in the general direction of the wood and it will decrease the drying time significantly. He has a number of buildings that look like greenhouses with open doors at either end. He has a fan blowing through them and says a 3 inch thick slab is dry for sale in about 6-9 months.
Just more info to think about.
 
Randydb said:
I purchased a maple slab from a guy who is in the business of drying thick pieces of wood to sell. I mentioned the "year per inch" to him and he said generally if you just have it sitting under a tarp outside that is about the average. But if you bring it into your garage or into your house it dries quicker. He also told me to put a fan on aimed in the general direction of the wood and it will decrease the drying time significantly. He has a number of buildings that look like greenhouses with open doors at either end. He has a fan blowing through them and says a 3 inch thick slab is dry for sale in about 6-9 months.
Just more info to think about.
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That sounds about right.

There is kiln dried too.
 
Is this the knife after all EngrSorenson EngrSorenson ? Looks great!

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I would only have hesitated a little to make the handle with green wood that you dried to the extent that you did. I might have let it sit through a winter heating season in my house but come spring I would have assembled the knife. For your own personal use and the significance of the local wood - why not?
Worse case it would need refinishing and maybe a treatment with some CA adhesive after a while. I'm sure that traditionally, knives for personal use were not ALWAYS handled with well seasoned wood.
 
RayseM said:
Is this the knife after all EngrSorenson EngrSorenson ? Looks great!

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I would only have hesitated a little to make the handle with green wood that you dried to the extent that you did. I might have let it sit through a winter heating season in my house but come spring I would have assembled the knife. For your own personal use and the significance of the local wood - why not?
Worse case it would need refinishing and maybe a treatment with some CA adhesive after a while. I'm sure that traditionally, knives for personal use were not ALWAYS handled with well seasoned wood.
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It is, in fact. I got the wood pretty dry cycling it once more in my oven. After that, it didn’t change at all in the weeks I spent working on it- no new cracks, no reduction in weight, etc. It was worth the risk to me; the idea of using something else just wasn’t as nice.
 
Ken H> said:
Not that it matters the on how to dry, but it sounds like his wood isn'ty "green" but "wet" - he did say it was spalting?
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I have spalted willow that I collected a few days after it was cut down in 1.5m sections. Maybe 50-60cm trunks
If the tree was infected you can get spalting in the tree
 
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