We can see that before the furniture is made the wood will be dried, where the wood is dried through 2 techniques. The two techniques are natural drying techniques using air and sunlight and artificial drying techniques.
a. Natural Drying Technique
This technique uses air and sunlight as drying. Usually you also see wood in the sun drying by utilizing the air and sunlight, you see a lot around your environment. you may even have done it yourself. In addition, this is a production of vases we have and have previously been in the oven. but before doing the inspection we dry it again with natural techniques to make it more optimal and durable.
There are advantages and disadvantages to using this technique, namely :
The advantage of natural drying techniques is that the costs incurred are quite cheap, the drying that is carried out also only utilizes free natural energy.
Does not require expensive equipment, does not require experts because it is easy to do, the amount of wood that is dried can also be large to unlimited, It’s not too complicated to do this technique because it’s very easy to apply.
The disadvantage is that if the weather is bad it takes a long time, if the wood is damaged it will be difficult to repair because the wood still has a fairly high water content in it, it must have a large area for the drying process because the land used must also be wide if that’s a lot of wood.
b. Artificial Drying Technique
For the artificial drying process, at this time we have used a tool that is quite helpful for drying wood, namely the oven, this tool was created because the times are increasingly modern, and there is also a lot of public interest in using this tool.
This machine tool is called an oven, the advantage of using an oven for drying wood is that the drying process is fast, defects in wood can be repaired, have better results and quality than natural drying, the moisture content of wood can be adjusted according to the needs of the wood. its use, humidity and air circulation can be adjusted during the drying process, can adjust the temperature and temperature as needed so that it is right, does not experience interference during the drying process.
The disadvantage is that it cannot load a lot of wood, sometimes it requires a lot of finance, requires experts.