4/4 lumber is 1″ thick, so it should be rough cut at 1″ thick, right? Not exactly. For hardwoods, the commercial target for 4/4 lumber is actually 1-1/8″, which allows enough margin to ...

Making it more complex is the fact that lumbering developed regionally, so there are a variety of names for the same action, or even the same cut of lumber ... it's called rough lumber and ...

Be realistic in your expectations. A good sawyer can do a remarkable job converting rough logs into straight lumber. But if you ask a sawyer to cut 1″ by 8″ lumber out of a log that is 6 ...