An Insight Into The Making And Processing Of Stabilized Wood

By Paul Thomas


The furniture industry is among the most important industries that homeowners, institutions, and business people seek every day. However, the industry is under threat due to the continued ban on timber harvesting across the globe from the ongoing climate change fight goes on. As carpenters have no option but to salvage any piece of timber that they have to make items that their customers need. The costs and unavailability of these products leave investors in these industries with no other option but to use available timber. Here is how you can simply make stabilized wood at your workshop.

Carpenters may not know that what they are using has undergone some stabilization until you tell them. To understand the entire process, you have to know what stabilization is. It is the process of hardening soft wood materials by using resins. These blanks are boiled in pots that are heated using vacuuming machines as you are about to find out.

For a good stabilization process, you ought to prepare the blanks by ensuring that they are dry. Wet blanks are difficult to stabilize. For easy verification of moisture content in timber, you may use a moisture meter. The best rate of moisture in each blank should be below 10% for a successful process. In case the moisture level is too high, you can reduce it by hastening the drying process where the blanks are roughly cut and placed on drying racks.

After all the blanks have dried to relevant moisture levels, you can begin the stabilization process. Assemble the kits including anti-float plates, a vacuuming generator, steel pots and inner chamber. The blanks will be placed in the inner chamber where it will be filled with resins. The apparatus ensures that the blanks get soaked with your preferred materials.

For the resins to get into every part of blanks, high temperatures are required. The vacuum generator produces this, and the moisture coming from the pots might hurt you badly if you are not keen when opening them. Leave the blanks to boil for thirty minutes and safely open the pot. If you find them floating on top of your mixture, repeat the procedure for some additional minutes and clean the pots once you are through.

Having filled all the blanks with sufficient resins, you need to cure them. Each blank needs to be wrapped with an aluminum foil individually. Take the wrapped blanks into an oven that will heat them to a level of 200 degrees. Although a kitchen oven can provide the required heat, it is vital that you use a toaster. A thermometer can be used in checking for accurate temperature levels.

Is this the only way that a blank can be stabilized? No. Some traditional methods are available although they are tedious and might be time consuming for people who are new to it. Cheap commercial chemicals like wood hardeners are accessible from shops whereby they can be painted into pieces. However, their quality is low when compared to the above process.

Business people try every trick to increase their profit margins and win over their competitors. The rising prices of timber should not alter your business chances when you can make your own stabilized blanks. Make use of the highlighted steps in saving costs and producing the best pieces.




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