So my in laws in an attempt to support my nascent woodworking hobby bought me a 30 lb project pack of kiln dried Figured Walnut (mostly end cuts, etc 5/4 & 8/4 stock).
I have had it in my shop for ~4 weeks.
Today I jointed, planed and was resawing one of the pieces (5/4 x 6 x 15). During the resawing (I was splitting board down the middle) the board just twisted up on me. The twisting was so bad that the kerf closed up on me about 1/2 through the second cut on the table saw.
So now, I have two pieces that are so warped that they are teeter-totters.
So my question is was the wood actually set wet or is this a problem with figured walnut (or maybe just this board)? Because it happened so fast, I thought it might be a problem to figured walnut or this board.