Wood is never completely dry and shrinks and swells as the weather permits.
Some woods are more prone to this than others.
You can take a round dowel made out of red oak and blow smoke through it.
Even with a cheap modern finish on it it will get moisture in it.
The only way around this is to use turpentine mixed with a good oil like pure tung oil and soak the wood till it wont take anymore.
Then you start putting on pure oil.
I have put on as many as 100 coats of oil on my gun stocks doing this.
Oil sanding and mudding along the way to seal the grain.
Today's products are a fake of what the read deal is.
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