Maple question

[cbla]

Hello all, I have a piece of Maple that has been air drying for 2 years and is down to 18% mc. As you can see in one of the pics one side is clean, while the other has some rot. My question is when I try to dry this down to a useable mc content will it crack and cup along this seem up the center? Thanks for any feedback.

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[WDH]

I believe that if it was going to cup and crack that it already would have. 

[cbla]

Thanks for the feedback WDH

[GeneWengert-WoodDoc]

The drier it goes, the more it shrinks, and so, the more it will cup.  At 18% MC, you still have about 1/3 of the shrinkage that will happen when drying to 8% MC.

Any cracks you have now will likely increase in size, but no new cracks will form.

[cbla]

Thanks so much for the feedback Gene!