I built a proper board foot calculator

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As a developer who does woodworking on the weekends, I kept getting my lumber estimates wrong. Last year, a miscalculation on a walnut dining table cost me a lot of money and a frustrating trip to the lumber yard.Existing online calculators were either too simplistic or required deep knowledge of obscure timber industry standards (like Doyle vs. International 1/4-Inch rules).So I built my own: https://board-foot-calculator.xyz/It's a suite of tools that handles nominal vs. actual dimensions, cost estimation, unit conversions (imperial/metric), and even log scaling.The fun technical challenge was correctly implementing the historical scaling formulas. For example, the Doyle Log Rule (D-4)² ×

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Website: board-foot-calculator.xyz