I dont know why they have to lie about it. At $5/8ft board you’d think I paid for the full 1.5. Edit: I mixed up nominal with actual.

  • RagnarokOnline@programming.devEnglish
    93·
    7 months ago

    Good thing you checked, that’s ridiculous. If I’d cut a dado for some mixed stock and found out some of them were 1 & 1/3 instead of 1 & 1/2, I’d be pissed.

    • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      7 months ago

      For a dado, you’d better measure every board.

      But in reality, if you’re looking for a perfect fit for construction lumber, you’d also better let it dry out for a week before measuring and fitting, cause it was probably 1.5" soaking wet from the yard, and shrank a bunch.

      • RagnarokOnline@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I’ve found some applications for it, honestly.

        I made a work bench with oak 4x4s for legs and dado’d in pine 2x4s for the cross braces. Nice and sturdy with a good enough fit and no movement I noticed over the past 3 years.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      31·
      7 months ago

      There is a lot of manufacturing deviation with lumber. If you are that picky maybe you could try talking to one of the associates. They tend to know the best places to look and they may even help you measure.

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Dimensional lumber has negligible variance in width/depth most of the time which is why it’s called that. It’s really the length that’s a crapshoot. Gotta love when you buy a bunch of 10’ planks and a couple are a few inches short