Hi, I find confirmation bias to be a really interesting area of research. Scary too, because I keep wondering how much of the stuff I reject was rejected for the right reasons, and wonder that even more after my faith in something increases because it survived this very introspection! Have a a happy, Steve El PS what do you teach, BTW?
Yes, you can find kiln-dried wood (e.g. there is a kiln up here in Ubon, where I am currently) but it ain't cheap.
I think old wood is a better deal - reclaimed from old houses and such - often the wood is 30, 40, 50 yrs old, and of high quality
Nice house. I lived in ChiangMai for a couple of years (MooBan Nantana on Mahidon Road and before that at the Doi Ping Mansion) and then moved down to Ayutthaya...have been here for 12 years now. Retired, fat, lazy, etc. Good to see someone else from the land of smiles.