: I'm a newbie, thinking of making a SOF from Yost's website (thanks tom, great
: site), but am finding the measuments counterintuitive. Any suggestions for
: conversion to standard imperial (fractions)? Or should i just go with
: cm's?

Hi Greyson,
If the measurements are in metric, stick with that.
I grew up using Imperial, but I use metric for working, usually in millimetres as there's few decimal point numbers to get confused about. (I'm easily confused.)
For fine work, translating from metric to Imperial give some very odd fractions, less so with Imperial to metric.

1 inch is 25.4mm.
I've yet to see a measure tape that has 1/25.4 fractions.

Hope this helps,
Mike Savage
South West Cork