{"id":11969,"date":"2000-01-01T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T18:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=11969"},"modified":"2019-06-27T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T18:09:55","slug":"what-does-4-4-mean-or-6-4-8-4-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/lumber-help-faq\/what-does-4-4-mean-or-6-4-8-4-5-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does 4\/4 Mean? (Or 6\/4, 8\/4, 5\/4?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These are fractions that identify the rough milled <em>thickness<\/em>\n of lumber. You might be used to terms like 1&#215;6 or 2&#215;8 for softwoods \n(pine, fir, etc), hardwoods are measured differently, starting with the \nthickness in fraction form.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fractions read in quarters of inches. For example, 4\/4 is called &#8220;four quarter,&#8221; and it means <em>approximately<\/em> 1&#8243; in rough thickness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might find this article in our blog pretty useful if you want to know more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/tips-tricks\/what-does-44-mean-when-talking-about-lumber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Woodworking 101: What Does 4\/4 Mean In Lumber?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are fractions that identify the rough milled thickness of lumber. You might be used to terms like 1&#215;6 or 2&#215;8 for softwoods (pine, fir, etc), hardwoods are measured differently, starting with the thickness in fraction form.&nbsp; The fractions read in quarters of inches. For example, 4\/4 is called &#8220;four quarter,&#8221; and it means approximately <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/lumber-help-faq\/what-does-4-4-mean-or-6-4-8-4-5-4\/\">&#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-11969","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\/11969","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=11969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11970,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969\/revisions\/11970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}