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   Guest_ | Jun 15, 1999 10:04am | #1

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   HD Rider: Lay the board to be cut exactly on top of the last full board installed. Tack it down. Scribe the exact revealed width of a board (about 8 inches, but take it off the revealed portion of last board itself) from the irregular wall onto the board you've tacked down. Get out the jigsaw and cut it to size.

   Try a test piece first, you may want to take a little more off so you can wiggle it into the T+G. Or cut at an angle, taking more off at the bottom so it clears more easily when you swing it into place. -A Toyota Driver.

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   HD_Rider | Jun 16, 1999 03:42am | #2

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   Thanks Toyota Driver. I was hoping there was an easier way than scribing that 8" space but guess not.Thanks again.
   HD Rider

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   Guest_ | Jun 21, 1999 12:46am | #3

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   Any chance of covering the joint with a molding? Might be easier.

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   Guest_ | Jun 21, 1999 06:39am | #5

   *HDThe guy I apprenticed with used to do what he called "a process of succesive approximations" which was to cut/plane to a series of rough scribe lines that got you slowly closer and closer to perfection. This could be done to achieve a perfect" scribe. Alternatively you hold the board that your are going to scribe a short distance from the wall, but exactly parallel to the existing T&G, say 1/2"-3/4", fashion a scribe out of a pencil taped to a block of wood so that the total width to the centre of the pencil lead equals the same 1/2", and run it along the wall so as to mark the piece of T&G. A less than perfect scribe can then be covered with a piece of moulding as mentioned in the post above-pm

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   HD_Rider | Jun 21, 1999 06:39am | #4

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   Installing 1"x8" T&G cedar boards and have a 20" run to scribe to the wall.
   Width varies between 4 3/8" and 3 7/8". For the life of me I can't seem to remember hoe to position my board to scribe it. Guess what they say about the mind being the first...etc.
   Any help appreciated.