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Also, if you are dead set with using 2x4s, buy stud grade material.  Studs are milled from the center of the tree and are more stable and designed to be load bearing.  That's what they are made for.  If you buy regular SPF plate stock it is going to be rougher and more prone to twisting.  They are used for top and bottom plates in a wall and don't need to be super straight and clean.  That is what they are made for.  Don't you think lumber is used to frame probably 95% of the houses being built for a reason.  Because it is the best option.  If I build a house with say 400 studs a floor and check for plumb before dry walling, maybe 30 or 40 will need to be replaced, usually less, because they twisted after being installed.  Again because that is what they are made for.  Using ripped LVLs for benchwork will certainly work well, but again that is much more expensive and they are hard as a rock to screw into.  To say today's framing lumber is garbage is pure garbage.  I sell millions of dollars of it every year and use it to build $800,000 custom homes.  You just don't know what you are buying.

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