Paulownia question

[Perry Hilbert Jr]

I read somewhere that paulownia only shrinks 2% from green to dry and therefore almost never cracks or checks. True?

[Danny Hamsley]

Does not sound right to me.

[Anthony Albano]

That has been my experience. Very stable material

[Bradley Gray]

It is very stable especially for such a light weight wood.

[Roy Haney]

It is traditional in japan to build boxes with slip on lids that take 3 minutes to settle. I have cut Kiri (Japanese way to say Paulownia). I have never measured the shrinkage but it does loose a lot of weight during drying do to the water weight.