• Ddhuud@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The story is that the wood used to be roughly 2x4 and by “roughly” I mean that the woodworker would have to throw away almost half an inch to even have a straight surface.

    But when the machines to do that became common the mills started doing that work, and they saved the extra volume of essentially garbage that was shipped with every piece of wood.