When I first started woodworking and even sometimes now I was very confused with a lot of the terms and definitions used by lumber suppliers.

If you ever visit a lumber supplier either by going to the internet and visiting a supplier in person they used terms such as Board Foot, S4S and then there is the whole wood grading system, it left me feeling very bewildered and out of my depth, so I decided to start this little project on demystifying this whole subject, because if I felt like that others probably did too.

I have included some charts in here and I am working on making a downloadable PDF that you can print and take with you.

You can see the new section here, which is part of the Woodworking 101 section of the site