Hi Chris, as far as I know , humidity is far more important than temperature when dealing with wood. The thing is central heating system tends to drop the humidity level dangerously (under 40 %), which means the wood will shrink noticeably (mainly in width, I mean perpendicular to the fiber length). If you have bars glued under your soundboard, it could cause problems ( =cracks)... If your soundboard is free to distort, well, try !
Regards julien Stryjak Selon Chris Newman <[email protected]>: > Dear All > As a new lute-builder I am very much appreciating the discussions here > - but have a newbie-type question > I am renting bench-space in a quite large workshop, it's not warm but > has background heat to keep the temperature from dropping to > unmanageable levels (we're having a cold (for the UK) winter here). > but I live in a centrally heated house, where my wife loves to keep us > very warm and cosy - above 25C. > I would, however, like to be able to bring my soundboard into the warm > and carve the rose on the kitchen table > but I'm worried that the changes in temperature (and humidity? - I've > just ordered a simple hygrometer to check this) might be too much for > the soundboard? > any advice very gratefully received > regards > Chris > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
