When building wooden furniture, the ability to divide by 3 and 4 comes in handy a lot more often than dividing by 5, and I don’t have to start rounding to nearest or stuff like that. For this task, inches work out better.
If I never see another inch size bolt in my life it’ll be too soon.
My point is, if you’re using feet and inches you maybe want to divide by that. We in the metric world don’t so it’s not that big a deal. Our woodworking is done in CM and MM and we rarely need fractions of mm.
When building wooden furniture, the ability to divide by 3 and 4 comes in handy a lot more often than dividing by 5, and I don’t have to start rounding to nearest or stuff like that. For this task, inches work out better.
If I never see another inch size bolt in my life it’ll be too soon.
I do woodworking too, my father did it since youth, and he did it just fine. We don’t feel the need to divide everything.
My point is, if you’re using feet and inches you maybe want to divide by that. We in the metric world don’t so it’s not that big a deal. Our woodworking is done in CM and MM and we rarely need fractions of mm.