Production wood blanks (if you see them anymore)
Are straight grained as string,and are cooked in a kiln until hard as concrete.
Not the same as cutting into a burl that's been in a hillside for 700 years. Drying in a shed for 10 years.
Everyone wishes it were.
The Sako stockwood supplier bared all about this on Woodnet some years ago. Quite a large volume consumer and military stock operation. Their operation requires kiln drying due to volume.
X % are scrapped out.
X% blow out after shaping.
X% break in use
X% warp and twist when forces are unleashed
It's built into the delivered cost.
Heated arguments ensued.
Machinists and hand stockers all chimed in.
Ultimately?
Figured wood is gonna move.
Don't go all the way in one shot.
