Seasoning wood: was facts and not facts : was Recommend Rebuilder?

[RicB]

Terry

I've seen pictures of masses of sikta logs soaking in salt water for 
long periods of time. Yamaha I think I remember had these pics in one of 
their marketing thingys I ran into once.  Cant quite remember what the 
bit about salt water was... but I remember running into this again in a 
paper about piano building in the 1850's..

Perhaps you know something about why logs would be soaked in sea water 
for a while before drying ?

Cheers
Ricb