{"id":169,"date":"2026-09-02T18:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/2026\/09\/02\/why-six-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:16:23","slug":"why-six-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/2026\/09\/02\/why-six-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it takes six weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fortnight of that is the timber sitting in the workshop doing nothing. Boards come out of a kiln at a lower moisture content than a house, and a table cut the day the wood arrives is a table that moves in its first winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then the joints. A drawbored mortise and tenon takes an hour a leg, against a minute for a bolt. It is also the reason a hundred-year-old table is still tight and a ten-year-old flat-pack is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last week is oil. Hardwax oil goes on thin, three coats, and each one wants a day. Rushing it gives you a surface that marks in a month, and we have tried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fortnight of that is the timber sitting in the workshop doing nothing. Boards come out of a kiln at a lower moisture content than a house, and a table cut the day the wood arrives is a table that moves in its first winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-bench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/tyche-oakhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}