Boar Thiknes

[Manny]

Good morning all, just wondering what's the right thikness of a pine board to be broken? I usually use 3/4" pine boards to do my breakings, using a fist I use two of them what makes 1.5" thickness, using a power kicks like a side kicks I use 3 to 4 of them what makes 3" of pine, and using a elbow strike I use 3 3/4" pin boards.

What thickness do you use per board?

Manny

 

[bluekey88]

The same. Most dimesnioned lumber (the kind you get from the big box stores) is labelled as 1" thickness, but is actually 3/4". As I understand, that's pretty universal. To get any other thicknesses you either have to go to a specialty supplier (such as gettign the really brittle and thin luan boards for demo breaks) or have rough cut lumber custom dimensioned.

Peace,
Erik

 

[MasterWright]

Bluekey88 is right, they call it 1 inch but it's around 3/4 "

We use what the lumber mill people call planer outs which did not clean-up at the finish size for a dollar (.80 cents U.S.) per foot. 12"(11 1/2")x1"(3/4")cut to 10 1/2" inches long for anyone 13 and older. 6" long for 10-12 yrs and 4" for under.

The best pine is over 2 dollars per foot! which would be around $1.85 U.S. per foot. You don't need furniture grade pine for breaking, I would think.