In article <[email protected]>, David L
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've seen a lot of people refer to 5/4 cut wood.
>
> What does that mean, exactly?
Five quarters. 1 and 1/4 inches, rough cut.
djb
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Rough wood, at one stage of its trip to your shop, is reckoned in 1/4"
increments in nominal thickness ... or thereabouts.
IOW, a 5/4 (five quarter) board would measure 1 1/4" in nominal thickness, a
12/4 board 3" in nominal thickness, and so on..
A 4/4 board, sold as "dimensioned lumber", or after you have joined and
planed it, would have an actual finished thickness of 3/4".
In figuring board feet, lumber retailers sell you 3/4" thick "dimensioned
lumber", but calcuate the board feet using the 4/4 "nominal" thickness.
For sheet goods, like decking, all bets are off and it is not necessarily
the same. 5/4 decking is usually about 1 1/16" in finished thickness, IME.
There's more to it, but that should get you started in tlaking the lingo at
a hardwood lumber yard.
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"David L" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I don't know too much about how wood is cut (obviously).
>
> I've seen a lot of people refer to 5/4 cut wood.
>
> What does that mean, exactly?
>
> Thanks!