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   Jamie_Buxton | May 20, 2005 07:08am | #1

   google with "salt dried wood"

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   WillGeorge | May 21, 2005 04:02am | #2

   I think SALT is any Mineral that they used.. I could be wrong..

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   KeithNewton | May 21, 2005 07:35am | #3

   Salting poorly dried wood is a cheap trick. As I'm sure you all know, Salt draws moisture out of the air. When freshly dried lumber showed surface checks before they had kilns with all of the bells and whistles, they would salt the surface, the salt would draw moisture out of the air, which would be absorbed into the surface of the wood, and close the cracks.
   Now they would just add steam at the end to achieve the same results.