{"id":11958,"date":"2000-01-01T10:32:03","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2019-06-27T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:36:59","slug":"can-i-get-boards-thicker-than-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/lumber-help-faq\/can-i-get-boards-thicker-than-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Get Boards Thicker Than 2&#8243;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The best way to get solid wood thicker than 2&#8243; is to glue it\n up and mill it down to the size you need. Believe it or not, this is \nmore common than you might realize.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From time to time we do stock a few species of lumber in 12\/4 thickness (2 13\/16&#8243; thick).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hard Maple<\/li><li>Basswood<\/li><li>Walnut<\/li><li>Cherry<\/li><li>Poplar<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thick hardwood lumber is quite uncommon for two reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It&#8217;s hard to dry thick lumber; the drying process results \nin a lot of waste and degrade in thicker lumber. This makes it expensive\n and rare.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Low market demand<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Glue up your own thick material when you need it \nthicker than 2&#8243;. It will be more stable and you can get exactly what you\n want this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to get solid wood thicker than 2&#8243; is to glue it up and mill it down to the size you need. Believe it or not, this is more common than you might realize.&nbsp; From time to time we do stock a few species of lumber in 12\/4 thickness (2 13\/16&#8243; thick). Hard <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/lumber-help-faq\/can-i-get-boards-thicker-than-2\/\">&#8230;<br \/><small><em><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/em> <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lumber-help-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11959,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions\/11959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}