Category: Woodworking

In woodworking, sometimes you may need to convert between a fraction of an inch and its decimal equivalent. In my experience this has mostly been when using a digital tool like SketchUp or another modeling tool. Here’s a handy chart to convert down to thirty-seconds, along with their reduced fractions and decimal equivalents. Thirty-seconds Sixteenths…

When most people think of something like a 2×4, they think its measurements would be 2 inches by 4 inches, right? Well, not quite… they do start out that way but by the time they get cleaned up for sale they’re smaller. A 2×4 is actually 1-1/2 by 3-1/2. It takes some getting used to.…