{"id":12038,"date":"2000-01-01T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T22:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=12038"},"modified":"2019-06-28T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T22:08:21","slug":"how-do-i-figure-out-how-much-board-footage-my-project-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-projects\/how-do-i-figure-out-how-much-board-footage-my-project-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Figure Out How Much Board Footage My Project Needs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we suggest you do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\nMake a list of your project parts\n<\/li><li>\nCalculate the board footage of each part\n<\/li><li>\nAdd up the footage for each part (but separate into groups so you know what needs to come from 4\/4, 8\/4. etc) <\/li><li>\nMultiply each sum by a waste factor of\n<em>\nat least\n<\/em>\n1.5\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\nMe &amp; Math Don&#8217;t Get Along &#8211; Give Me Another Way\n<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/help\/Project-Planner-Board-Feet-Calc2.xlsx\">\nDownload our Project Planner\n<\/a>\n<\/em>\nworksheet. Just fill it in with your project parts and it&#8217;ll do the hard part.\n<br>\nCheck out our\n<em>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-projects\/heres-how-estimate-board-footage-for-your-woodworking-project\/\">\nvideo tutorial\n<\/a>\n<\/em>\non how to use it, too.\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what we suggest you do: Make a list of your project parts Calculate the board footage of each part Add up the footage for each part (but separate into groups so you know what needs to come from 4\/4, 8\/4. etc) Multiply each sum by a waste factor of at least 1.5 Me &amp; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-projects\/how-do-i-figure-out-how-much-board-footage-my-project-needs\/\">&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038","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=12038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12039,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions\/12039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}