finger joint vs.solid wood studs
did a search and couldn’t find a disscussion on these.i’m doing ten foot walls and all the lumber yards have both.they price finger jointed studs about .25 higher,so today i decided that being as i’m not a big fan of finger jointed trim i’d save .25 a pc. and ordered 200 solid wood 10′ studs.if there is 50 decent studs in the bunch i’d be lucky.i swear it’s a shame a tree had to die to produce these sticks. now i’m thinking i should send them back and tell the yard to replace them with the finger jointed studs and go on. what do you guys think of these fingerjointed studs? i know one of the positives are they are suppose to be straighter and not warp.but i read one manf. warnings that talked about them getting wet was a no no,well i’d guess these things will get rained on 10-15 times before were dryed in.[i know my luck last week 20 % chance,ran the basement floor-3 hours later 6 inches of rain!!!] i have heard of a stud made in a venier like plywood,anyone ever use them and what are they called?thanks for the input.larry
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The insulators don't like them as they (the joints) snag the batts. The plumbers & electricians with dull hole saws hate them as they will always have to drill through a finger joint.
They can be sticky with glue in the Texas sun, and they hardly ever seem to be in "plane," if relatively free of crown or twist.
Is that more work than finding all the crowns i nthe 10' studs, and blocking the twists & warps out? hard to say. FJs were popular, by price, for a while, but we have as many solids in "Tyler" purple as any other single kind of stud.