Here’s how to produce simulated clapboard siding for dollhouses with a router and an easy-to-make subbase. First, to make the subbase, bevel a 3/4-in. thick, 6×10 block on the tablesaw in much the same fashion as you would cut a raised panel. Be sure to leave a 1/16-in. or so fillet, as shown. Now bore a hole through the block, and mount the router so that a 3/4-in. straight bit chucked in it is tangent to the fillet of the base. After experimenting with the bit depth, you should be able to rout multiple beveled cuts across the workpiece, indexing each cut in the previous cut. For narrower siding, relocate the subbase on the router and use either the same or a smaller bit.

Jim and Dan Partner, Newport, Ind.

Fine Woodworking Magazine, December 1983 No. 43

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