Tonewood Storage

[peter havriluk]

I have four sets of back/side lumber and two spruce soundboards in their shipping packaging. Each set was received wrapped in plastic film which was wrapped with corrugated cardboard and shipped in an outer corrugated cardboard sleeve.

I won't be using any of this wood until at least the start of the new year.

Right now this wood is lying flat on a shelf in an upstairs room storage closet in Connecticut. Should I be doing anything else with the wood so that I don't mistreat it until I use it?

Thanks very much.

[ken cierp]

I have only purchased pre-cut material which was properly seasoned and dried from a very few suppliers So the likely hood of unstickered and weighted down materials not ending up looking like potatochips has been rare in my experience with small time vendors. So unwrap, sticker with non-staining wood (Taylor uses plastic stickers) and put some heavy weight on top the pile. $.02

[peter havriluk]

My ignorance of lumber language is showing. What's a 'sticker'?

Thanks.

[Robert Hosmer]

"Stickering" is the method of using "sticks" (also called "stickers") to keep your panels laying flat, yet providing space between the panels in order to allow air circulation.

I like to make my stickers 1/2" square, but it really doesn't matter as long as all of your stickers are identical dimension.

[TonyinNYC]

I sticker my new wood purchases and put a small fan blowing on it for a week or two. Once it's dry, I stack it without stickers. I will sticker the wood again when I am getting ready to use it. I have a lot of top wood and not a lot of storage, so keeping everything stickered would take up twice as much space, which I don't have. I only have a few tops and backs stickered right now. Most everything is stacked without stickers. The weight of the wood on top keeps it all flat. My expensive back and side sets are stickered at all times though.

[Rienk Ayers]

We buy paint sticks by the case (which is probably 1000+). Plain wood, no logo printed on them.
I was thinking these would make cheap stickers, with enough room for air circulation, but short enough that the stacks don't get too tall. They look like pine, so I'm not sure if that is okay...

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