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Drying Stickers Riven from a Seasoned Log
Stickers are the small dry strips laid between layers of stacked boards so air can flow through the pile as it dries. The first stack needs stickers before there are any boards, so rive them straight from a seasoned log with froe and mallet and plane them square.
The picture: our diagram of a stickered stack.
Beginner
Two hours
Instructions
1
1
Cut a billet
Cut a billet
Saw a straight-grained length off a seasoned log, a little longer than your stack is wide.
Materials for this step:
Seasoned Hardwood Logs1 pieceTools needed:
Hand Saw
Ruler2
2
Rive it
Rive it
Split the billet in halves, then halves again, with froe and mallet, following the grain, until the pieces are a little over 2 cm square.
Tools needed:
Froe
Wooden Mallet
Leather Work Gloves3
3
Plane them even
Plane them even
Plane each stick to the same thickness, about 2 cm, so every layer of the stack lies flat.
Tools needed:
Hand PlaneRuler4
4
Stickers for a stack
Stickers for a stack
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