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Regarding wind…
It seems to me that from an “engineering” perspective, it usually doesn’t matter if there is wind down the length of the board…
The reason for removing wind is so that the final project isn’t twisted. But this is only relevant where there is going to be joinery, and this is almost always only at the ends.
Therefore wind in the mid section doesn’t matter… usually! If you are going to have a join somewhere along the length it will matter, at that point.
Also, if it’s really bad it might harm the appearance of the piece. (On the other hand it might make it more “interesting”)
One last thing is that if the wind is really bad it might affect the absolute length of that component, which might be important is you are using it a a datum for another component…
But most of the time, it doesn’t matter.
I’m open to correction on my thoughts here!
Regards,
Matt