Get started... It's a capitalist plot to give you less and charge you more. You have to measure to know. the 2x4 is the rough cut size. They used to be 3-3/4x1-3/4, but now to screw you for more money they are 3-1/2x1-1/2. You know it only takes about 1/8" per side to clean up the wood originally and it hasn't gotten worse, it is now they can make more 2x4s with the same amount of rough cut wood.

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