If all the hardware stores sell slop lumber hoping contractors won't give a fuck and customers won't notice which I'm sure is what happens 90% of the time. I had to sift through 2x6s for like 15 minutes with the hardware jockey whistling nervously over my shoulder as I kept sifting through split board after split board. I might as well cut down my own trees and mill my own lumber and even cure it with all this split shit being sold. Has it always been like this ever since megacorps bought out the local mills?
there was a hive of killer benis in the lumber pile, couldnt be fucked to get the straight ones out
>>3006594I actually saw some of the lumber sitting outside in the rain, just like I've seen plastic water jugs sit outside in the sun. Corporations are fucking whack as fuck.
>>3006593I was building a kitchen shelf/stand recently and felt the same way. So much of it is total shit. Split, mangled, warped, twisted, and I have to sift through it all to find a couple decent boards. It's almost enough to put me off of wood working entirely.
>>3006597Exactly. Kills my flow and ruins the fun having to do their job for them and realizing they don't give a fuck about your hobbies despite acting as though they're willing to provide a medium for them. Dealing with soulless creativelet zogbot NPCs also saps my aura as they are like a black hole or negative energy absorbing all light and loosh. If we didn't have so many people who needed slop jobs I'm sure a fully automated system could provide a superior experience with little to no margin for error. I'm surprised these companies aren't losing profits by the boatload with so many lazy NPCs fucking up their products by not giving a single shit anymore.
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>>3006600I actually know what's causing this, it's the music that corpos make people to listen to forcing them to shut off any spiritual influence as that's what music is made for is to influence people's souls to feel a certain way. The fact that every corpo plays faggot normie music all day for a little marketing scheme to trick customers into buying faster and leaving is diabolical.
>If all the hardware stores sell slop lumbergo to an actual lumber yard for your lumber, not slopcity.
>>3006593I buy my shit from the Amish and it's pretty straight, plus, a 2x4 it's actually 2in x 4in
Material is material. If you needed it to be that precision perfect, then you wouldn't choose wood in the first place. Most retail hardwoods are accurate beyond what OP is capable of measuring and construction spf lumber will be acceptable in a much wider tolerance for its applications. If the material is too warped for use, just don't buy it. No one is going to notice 1/8" of crown in your 8' walls, and you should be crowing them all in the same direction anyway. Are the hardwood overpriced? Yes, that's the cost of retail. Buy wholesale if you're moving quantity. Or search out better sources.
>>3006613the lumber all comes from the same place retard, the forest.
>>3006613>he thinks the lumber yards dont have yid buyers price hunting for the cheapest shit that meets #2&betterlollmfao even check the mill brands on the units next time youre there. theres no loyalty in that game
>>3006593So are you a contractor or what
>>3006593That's just the nature of wood, my dude.Construction lumber you always want to buy fresh as soon as it hits the lot.
>>3006601The whole design theory behind why retail spaces are they way they way is wild. Like how fast food places deliberately use slightly uncomfortable furniture to make you eat and leave as quickly as possible. Or how they layout grocery stores so you have to walk across the whole god damn store to get the staples.>>3006599I find that if you pay people a living wage they actually give a shit about their jobs. When I was a lad you could earn a pension working on the floor at Sears. Now everyone pays so little you actually earned more getting paid minimum wage in 1969 then getting $11 an hour today. Both keeping the minimum wage low and inflation high is a deliberate decision they are making.>>3006626No Amish out here, sadly, but we do still have some decent locally owned lumber yards. The wood is straight but you pay more for it.>>3006651It is not the source, it is how they process it. They mill it as cheaply as possible with a complete disregard to producing a quality product.
>>3006593>I might as well cut down my own trees and mill my own lumber and even cure it with all this split shit being soldSo buy a chainsaw mill and quit whining on 4chan.
