I cut the summerbeam with the technique called "boxing in the heart." This means that the center of the log remains as the center of the beam. When you box in the heart, the beam will not warp much, if at all, while drying.
If, for example, you had a 24 inch diameter log, and you cut it right down the middle, and made two beams from it, these beams would warp.
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