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Plywood and Humidity

Furnished content.
(from WoodNet.net)


I'm making drawer boxes from 5/8 Baltic Birch. A few days ago, I cut the dados and rabbits in the sides. The 1/4 tongues fit nicely in the dados. I went to assemble the boxes today, and the tongues are all too thick to fit into the dados. It is much more humid today than it was when I cut the tongues and dados, but I thought plywood was pretty stable. Any ideas what happened? Am I just really bad at this?

Should I fix it now, or wait until the weather changes and the humidor goes away.

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