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BeeMaster2:

--- Quote from: Gadgets on February 24, 2024, 01:17:12 pm ---After getting home with my new 2x12 planks I measured them. They now are only 11 1/8?- 11 3/16?  wide! :angry:

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Welcome to Beemaster.
Board dimensions have been shrinking since they stopped making rough cut boards especially in the north east. My brother moved down here from PA and the first time we were building something, I told him the measurement of a 2x6 and he argued saying it was smaller. I was exactly 1 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches. He had to measure it himself. He insisted that they were smaller because that was what he was used to.
Jim Altmiller

Michael Bush:
The recent measurements of lumber I've bought:

1x2 = 11/32 x 1-7/16
1x3 = 11/32 x 2-7/16
1x4 = 3/4 x 3-1/2
1x6 = 3/4 x 5-1/2
1x8 = 3/4 x 7-1/8
1x10 = 3/4 x 9-1/8
1x12 = 3/4 x 11-1/8

2x2 = 1-1/2 x 1-1/2
2x3 = 1-1/2 x 2-1/2
2x4 = 1-1/2 x 3-1/2
2x6 = 1-1/2 x 5-1/2
2x8 = 1-1/2 x 7-1/8
2x10 = 1-1/2 x 9-1/8
2x12 = 1-1/2 x 11-1/8

The one by 2s and one by 3s only recently shrunk.  Most of the rest of these have been fairly consistent since the 1970s.

animal:
If it isn't 1-1/2 inches thick, it isn't a "2 by".
Planed lumber used to vary more years ago and it wasn't uncommon for thickness to be 1-5/8" , and the width to be 3/8" less than the rough cut size .. but it would come in between those thickness too. It still varies, but not nearly as much. The 2x12s I've bought for a number of years now have been dead-on 11-1/4" wide and thickness of 1-1/2" to plus 1/32". (all were treated, though)
I haven't had the same experience as Mr. Bush on 1x2s and 1x3s in this area except the additional availability of 1x2 and 1x3 rounded edge furring strips being in those dimensions (in really scruffy white pine of some sort). Here 1x2s are 3/4" x 1-1/2" and 1x3 isn't usually available except in hardwoods.

1-1/8" thick sounds like an "appearance board" or premium siding (and specifically a "top band" board).. all bets are off when it comes to premium siding, but it usually varies between 7/8" and 1-1/8". (and other variations like planed on one side, contoured on one side, etc.)

What species of wood was it? Did you buy it from a regular hardware/lumber store or from a sawmill or something?

and ... welcome to the forum !   

Michael Bush:
The really small stuff was rounded on the edges and was intended, I'm sure, as furring strips, but they are the only 1x2s available at all around here.  I have to rip my own out of other one bys to get full sizes, which I often do.

animal:
"real" 1x2s ... I see 'em in the store, but almost always rip my own out of 1x4s .... For some reason (since covid) they're priced really high here. Every once in awhile they're even more than 1x4s.

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