Wood kiln

Kiln Dry Lumber at Home: Kiln drying your own wood at home can be a great way to sustainably harvest the materials around you, and dry it fast enough to build furniture with. If furniture is made with wood that is too wet, it will continue to dry and crack, possibly ruining…

Welcome back to blog land! We have been off the air for a little while due to computer crash, but we're back on line and ready to go! It's a fortnight since my return from the UK, and lots has been going on, but before any of that I need to review Steve Tootells kiln building project in North Wales. In earlier blogs you will find a layer by layer description of the building of Laura Inoues kiln in Nagano, and a series about the kiln building workshop in Mashiko. Every project is different…

side view of the wood kiln before installing the sides home made wood kiln debugging old barn wood ____________________________________________ When I got home from work this afternoon, I fired up …

We constructed this nifty 8x8x12' passive-solar kiln. And boy does it work, not to mention save money! Better still, we developed a plan for our kiln so you can build one just like it.

Why is wood that has been kiln dried so much more stable than wood that has been air dried?

Kiln Dry Lumber at Home: Kiln drying your own wood at home can be a great way to sustainably harvest the materials around you, and dry it fast enough to build furniture with. If furniture is made with wood that is too wet, it will continue to dry and crack, possibly ruining…

Solar kilns offer numerous advantages for hobbyists and professional woodworkers, including cost savings, simplicity, and eco-friendliness.

Insights on using a dehumidifier kiln built from a shipping container. December 11, 2007

I got my hands on some tree parts locally that I want to use in a workbench later, but needed and cheap and easy way to speed up drying them.