Homemade Lap Siding Jig

Cut two pieces of 1 2 inch thick plywood to 1 inch wide and 3 inches long.

Homemade lap siding jig.

The depth of the rabbets should be exactly half the thickness of your lumber. A super simple jig to mill tapered clapboard siding. Make shiplap siding and cedar shake shingles quickly and easily. Wide and the other at 3 4 in.

Two jigs per set. With the width the same on both sides of your board you can adjust the reveal between boards when you install the decorative shiplap siding. Turn the jig. We finally finished the studs this week and moved on to something a bit more interesting.

How to make a siding jig for hardieplank step 1. To make a more traditional shiplap joint simply cut one rabbet at 1 2 in. Lay a 1 by 3 piece of 1 2 inch thick plywood along the 3 inch wide end of the longer piece with the two. Reconfigure the jigs and make cedar shake shingles 9 22 5cm wide and up to 16 40cm long each pass makes two shingles.