LENOIR, NC - AikenControls will make its debut at the 2014 International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta vying to win a Challengers Award for its new nDepth 3D Sensor, a lumber defect detection system.

Planing defects such as snipe, ripples and raised, chipped or fuzzy grain can ruin a project. Here are simple solutions. Have you ever planed a piece of wood and then found that the first 6 inches or ...

Rubin Shmulsky, professor and head; Gabrielly Dos Santos Bobadilha, postdoctoral associate; and Dercilio Junior Lopes, assistant research professor, all in the Department of Sustainable Bioproducts in ...

The wood in your walls is stronger than anything at the lumber yard today.

Discuss various methods and types of dry kilns and their pros and cons. Learn to develop a kiln-drying schedule and a way to select and check kiln samples. Discuss lumber drying defects and how to ...