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  2. Laminated veneer lumber - Wikipedia

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    Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is an engineered wood product that uses multiple layers of thin wood assembled with adhesives. It is typically used for headers , beams , rimboard , and edge-forming material.

  3. Shakes (timber) - Wikipedia

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    Arising in cut timber they generally cause a reduction in strength. When found in a log they can result in a significant amount of waste, when a log is converted to lumber. Apart from heart shakes, often found in trees felled past their best, shakes in a log have no effect on the strength of shake free lumber obtained therefrom. [1]

  4. Wood warping - Wikipedia

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    Different types of wood warping. Wood warping is a deviation from flatness in timber as a result of internal residual stress caused by uneven shrinkage. Warping primarily occurs due to uneven expansion or contraction caused by changes in moisture content.

  5. Wood drying - Wikipedia

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    Wood drying (also seasoning lumber or wood seasoning) reduces the moisture content of wood before its use. When the drying is done in a kiln , the product is known as kiln-dried timber or lumber , whereas air drying is the more traditional method.

  6. What Is Cupping and Should You Try It? - AOL

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    In slide cupping, a method Heffron prefers, cups are moved back and forth across an area, while they stay in one spot in stationary cupping, which more likely causes the “circular hickey marks ...

  7. Quarter sawing - Wikipedia

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    Quarter-sawn boards have greater stability of form and size with less cupping (compared to flatsawn boards), shrinkage across the width, shake and splitting, and other good qualities. [1] In some woods such as oak, the wood grain produces a decorative effect which shows a prominent ray fleck, while sapele is likely to produce a ribbon figure.

  8. Best and worst Cowboys seasons, plus most disappointing ... - AOL

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    Playoffs: Wild-card round Nothing about this season, the final one under head coach Bill Parcells, was that special. But a brutal loss in the playoffs makes it stand out.

  9. Dry rot - Wikipedia

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    Both species of fungi cause brown rot decay, preferentially removing cellulose and hemicellulose from the timber, leaving a brittle matrix of modified lignin. The term dry rot is somewhat misleading, as both species of fungi Serpula lacrymans and Meruliporia incrassata require an elevated moisture content to initiate an attack on timber (28–30%).