• Shareni@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    I rarely have to divide things by five or ten. I have to divide things by two, three and four a lot.

    I don’t know anything about carpentry, so I’ll take your word on it.

    My best guess is that the standards are different. For example 2cm stock instead of 1.9. Then only the 1/3 is problematic.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      I’m building a shaker table out of white oak. I milled all my stock to 3/4" thickness.

      Just today, I resawed a board to 3/8", or half its original thickness. I glued two boards together to make 3/2" (1 1/2") thick table legs, and I cut mortises 1/3 the thickness of the stock, or a nice even 1/4".

      I’m familiar with the metric system, I learned chemistry and physics in metric. I prefer woodworking in fractional inches because metric seems like a bigger pain in the ass

      • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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        7 months ago

        The fact you are working in fractions is more important than whether it’s SAE or metric. You can do the same with a cm instead of an inch.