"NOSPAM" wrote in message
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Can anyone point me to a website that would have a list of common lumber
sizes? I'm thinking about making a basic woodworking bench and I'd like to
compare common lumber sizes to various plans.

Being a newbie, whenever I get to my local lumber yard I get overwhelmed
by all the choices so tough to figure out what I want in advance. And when
I try to figure in the size difference between nominal and actual sizes my
head spins!


Buy your total width plus 15% in the length required. That way your head
won't spin when you discover that regardless nominal, or even actual size,
some lumber isn't straight and will have to be reduced in dimension to make
it so.