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If they put it in a vacuum for very long, all the moisture will be gone regardless of the heat. The kiln I guess is just to get the color that people find pleasing and looks aged.
I have never heard of it, but I do know old wood is sought after in many fields.
My brother worked as a carpenter on antebellum mansion in Alabama. It was built in the early 1800s and the many support beams were all mahogany, which is termite proof. Some of the beams in the attic had "seasoned" in the southern heat of an attic for nearly 200 years. He said cutting it with a standard saw blade was impossible, it would just dull the blade. They had to use a blade for cutting steel or concrete to cut them.
I saw a program recently where a company was going into old industrial areas and they were dismantling old warehouses and and manufacturing to get to the old original old growth center cut beams. They carefully removed all nails and then trimmed down the huge beams to make speaker cabinets for high end stereo speakers.
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