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Originally Posted by skinnymofo
find the dryest wood as it will warp the least as the rest of the moisture is taken out.
to help keep it from warping or to help straighten it, clamp it to something flat (table saw etc.) and let it sit there will still be a little warpage and if your building things just get a harder wood and drill countersink holes and let the screw suck it up.
and if you find a nice straight piece of wood, try and keep it the same humidity as the place you bought it from. it *should* stay fairly close to how you bought it.
you mind sharing what your building with your wood? just curious
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thanks for the advice guys. we recently had one of those pre-fab tin sheds in the backyard. problem with that was cuz it wasn't sealed bugs, spiders, snakes, and other misc pests were in there and no one wanted to go in -- that aside from the fact that it's unbelievably small. so we poured a concrete foundation and built a shed from scratch. this was made from the wood that i tried to keep straight.
now i am looking to buy more wood to make an aquarium stand out of an existing 3 foot wall/room divider/ledge thing at the foyer of the house. when you walk in from the front door, there is this 2.5 - 3 foot wall that is meant to act as a room divider. it's at an ideal height so i figured if i made it deeper and drywalled it to look like the walls, i could have an aquarium stand. i'll take before and after shots for you guys, if interested. thanks