In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, dkemppai wrote:

[quote="Kramer"]
Having been a carpenter and home builder, 1/32nd precision is excellent.
Anything more is unneeded as wood shrinks and expands with humidity. Even at 1/32nd, the wood must not be green in order to take advantage of such.

 
[/quote]Yeah, it's tough to get tight tolerances with wet wood. Espically if there are any internal stresses
in the tree. (I've seen some boards bend 6 inches over 8 feet when cutting wet lumber) 

 

However, once the wood is properly dried and the good stuff is selected and planed, a 1/32 is a mile!

At least for furnature work, anyway. FYI, the lift for my router has 1/512th inch resolution! (And it repeats to that!) Also it is not unusual to use a micrometer 1/1000th for measurements of stock thickness. However, shrinkage and expansion due to moisture change can be .020 in/in from winter to summer. 

 

Wood is a fun change from MCU's...   ...At least you can sand off bits that don't fit. I'd like to see

someone sand off the extra bits in an MCU! 

 

-Dan

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