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There are 2 ways we can help you get the sizes you need. 

  1. Make a selection request to meet or exceed your minimum dimension, or 
  2. Ask for custom cut-to-size boards

1. Selection Requests, or Minimum Size Specifications

If you can do your own cutting and/or gluing to size, you will order your lumber by the board foot in random widths and lengths and specify some minimum sizes. 

What you can’t do is order exact sizes. Only minimum sizes. 

This means we’ll provide a certain amount of board footage of lumber, and we’ll select it so that the sizes will be larger than what you request. 

When you buy by the board foot, it’s a way to buy a bulk amount of wood in random widths and random lengths. However you can specify a minimum size requirement for your widths or lengths. 

You’ll make the final cuts to create the sizes you want. To do this, you’ll need to do a little math to figure out how much board footage you need to buy. 

  1. Figure out the board footage of your project parts
  2. Apply a waste factor of at least 1.5
  3. Add it up 

Watch our Video Tutorial on this subject: 3 Simple Steps to Figure Out How Much Board Footage You’ll Need

2. Ordering Custom Cut Exact Sizes

If you can’t do your own cutting, we can custom cut just about anything you want. 

At the time of this writing, we don’t have a way for you to order this right from our website. Instead, we’ll need to provide you a custom quote. Please email us at [email protected] to get a quote.

A custom cut order is priced by the piece, or priced for the job. It is not priced by the board foot. 

Board footage is how random sized lumber is measured, bought and sold. Wood that’s cut to specified sizes is priced by the piece.


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