Making Shiplap Siding

I did cedar siding for my whole house like this.

Making shiplap siding.

Place a piece of planking face. You can use select grade for a super smooth look or common grade boards pine cedar really any type of solid wood that suites your needs. Use a level to ensure planks are installed horizontally on wall making sure to secure planks to wall studs. Using this table saw and dado blade setup you can cut duplicate rabbets on any size lumber to create trendy customizable decorative shiplap siding.

You can get a shaper from grizzly for about 300 and it will make fast work of it. Shiplap is a type of siding that is cut in specific way so that the different boards join easily together to create a relatively tight seal between them. With this unique jig cut lap siding up to 9 22 5cm wide with taper widths down to a feather edge. Adjust the depth of the bit to slightly more than half the thickness of the planking.

Note you can also have the wood cut at your local lumber store. Make shiplap siding and cedar shake shingles quickly and easily. It s called shiplap and i used a shaper to do it. To keep the cost down we used luan plywood.

Getting the table saw ready. The crucial dimensions are the depth and width of your rabbets. We cut the plywood into 8 inch wide pieces. Almost any 1x material nominal 3 4 is a good choice.

Tighten the chuck firmly to secure the bit. I lapped mine about an inch but it was exterior interior only needs enough to cover the shrinkage gap. Shiplap wall supplies step 1. How to make shiplap siding 1.

For standard 3 4 inch planking. Depending on the final look you want there are a ton of wood options you can use to make shiplap. Two jigs per set. While it is often popular outside it can also be installed inside houses.

Reconfigure the jigs and make cedar shake shingles 9 22 5cm wide and up to 16 40cm long each pass makes two shingles. Begin shiplap installation place your first plank on the wall starting at the baseboard and working your way up to the ceiling. The depth of the rabbets should be exactly half the thickness of your lumber. Mini crafts sticks and wooden ice pop sticks both work well as spacers.