Stickers!

[Jamespepperpot]

Try a local sawmill, they could probably cut you a whole load for cheap. I cut some every now and then from hemlock on my Woodmizer. Get enough from one log to do a whole bunch of stacking. 

[Dillinger86]

10 minutes ago, Jamespepperpot said:

Try a local sawmill, they could probably cut you a whole load for cheap. I cut some every now and then from hemlock on my Woodmizer. Get enough from one log to do a whole bunch of stacking. 

Would you sell a bunch? I'm in east anglia

[CDMR]

There is a school of thought that you should use the same wood for the sticker as the wood you are seasoning. I don't see why it would work but it does seem to make a difference on some woods that are prone to discolouration from the stickers such as Cedar and Sycamore.

 

Sorry, bit OT.

[se7enthdevil]

On 8/9/2017 at 07:35, SteveA said:

If my memory serves right se7enthdevil (member on arbtalk) was trying out some plastic half-round stickers. Not sure how he got on with those and it would be good to have some feedback...

cheers,steve

good memory mate, i did have the idea to do this to prevent any staining as i'd seen it on an american youtube video but the problem was that i could not find what they had used for sale over here. it was basically a really thick walled hard tube at about 1/4" -3/8" wall thickness but the tube was only 1 1/4" or 1 1/2" overall diameter and you split it on the bandsaw to give you two sticks from one pipe but i could not find a source that sold it. in the video it was sold in every american hardware store.

 

i have used dry sycamore for stickers and they have been fine.

Edited August 10, 2017 by se7enthdevil

[Mike Dempsey]

You are basically looking for a whitish wood which isn't brittle as you don't want them breaking easily. I have milled up a couple of poplar into 20mm thick planks and ripped them into 25mm wide strips. I keep a variety of lengths handy depending on what width of plank I am drying in the kiln. I discard any with large knots in them as they deform in the kiln. I haven't had any sticker stain from them on sycamore or any other wood and I have used them several times.