so what does your cad program size plywood like, then?  Does it use 1/2"
for half inch plywood, or does it use the decimal sizing that many of the
big box stores now sell as half inch plywood?   I recently had to buy new
tooling to be able to cut a dado to fit the metric plywood I often get when
I don't check....,....it is actually about a 32nd of an inch undersized
which looks really crappy if you expected a real 1/2" in your
calculations....

   We sell em our trees, they sell us back undersized plywood they've made
on factory ships just off our coast....Makes perfect sense to me....those
corporations are people and people have to eat....profit is KING

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Dominic Provini Jr. <dprovinijr@ha-pa.com>
wrote:

> It's actually 1-1/2" X 3-1/2"  I draw them on CAD all day.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Dennis Jowell
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 3:12 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Friday..OT..Stuff from WalMart-like stores...
>
> Loren, You are correct ! Rough lumber is 2x4, finish is 1 3/4 sometimes I
> even find it 1 5/8 in Vermont Laters
>
> Dennis Jowell
> Scotch Hollow Farm
> Newbury, Vermont
>
>
> > On Apr 17, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > ​RE: "... rather than that newfangled "2 inch unfinished size, 1 and
> > 3/4 inch finished size" lumber they use nowadays."
> >
> > Not 'new' at all, finished lumber (vs. rough cut) has been measured
> > that way for at least 100 years probably longer. a rough cut 2x4 is
> > 2"x4" but finished (nice and smooth) is 1 3/4" by 3 3/4".
>