{"id":8007,"date":"2025-08-14T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:52:01","slug":"do-you-have-one-of-these-in-your-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/do-you-have-one-of-these-in-your-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have one of these in your shop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1631-570x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>humidity meter<\/strong> is something you really should have in your shop. The cost is trivial. A thermometer is combined with most of them, as shown above. This one can fit conveniently on the wall with a screw, or stand on its leg, or grip steel with its magnet. It is about 2 5\/8&#8243; x 2 1\/4&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>As we all know, wood is always changing as the air humidity changes. We really want to be in-touch, especially with wide flatsawn boards. Fittings and alignments will size up differently in a winter day of 35% RH <strong>(relative humidity)<\/strong> in a shop up north compared with a summer day of 75% RH.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple and useful.<\/strong> Set up one or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A humidity meter is something you really should have in your shop. The cost is trivial. A thermometer is combined with most of them, as shown above. This one can fit conveniently on the wall with a screw, or stand on its leg, or grip steel with its magnet. It is about 2 5\/8&#8243; x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-and-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8026,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions\/8026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}