Woodworking

8078 readers

1 users here now

A handmade home for woodworkers and admirers of woodworkers. Our community icon is submitted by @inquanto@lemmy.world, winner of the Christmas 2025 gift contest with a lovely series of hardwood cutting boards.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

NataliePortland@lemmy.ca

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works

324

Dimensional lumber tape measure (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by mko@slrpnk.net to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

66 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I hope it’s not against the rules here, just saw this woodworking related xkcd that I enjoyed and thought it might be appreciated here:)

https://xkcd.com/3138

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except that all of the board length measurements will not work out.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A nightmare if you're following written measurements or working with other people, but as long as you use the same tape to measure how much you need and how much you have/are cutting, it should work out alright.

[–] Placid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless you're building anything with speced sizes . Oops I framed the walls too short.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

That would be the following written measurements I mentioned.