If the wood is not seasoned like this, it will be unstable and will warp, crack and otherwise do undesirable things when used to make the various parts of an instrument. Here, you can see where cracks in the ends of the boards have been arrested while the lumber continues to season. Of course these metal clips and the cracked ends are not used in the finished product. When stocks run low inside the factory, lumber is brought out of the barn and loaded into the heated factory. Here, wood is further seasoned in an indoor environment.
Lumber spends another year or so indoors before being used.
Here you can also see one of the large band saws and a traveling crane. Part of the wood shop. In the foreground is a large planer for smoothing the rough lumber. At the right is a long, automatic saw which is very handy for starting a smooth edge on rough lumber. Overhead, you can see the sawdust collection pipes leading to a large vacuum.