I want to cut 45 miter/laps at the butt joints in my Dolly Varden cedar siding (it’s beveled horizontal siding with a dadoed lip on the lip) and would like to hear about ideas for how to cut these. I thought about using a scrap piece of bevel faced down on the piece I’m cutting to essentially make a 5/4 board out of it. Got to be something better?
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Make your cuts on a sliding miter saw.
Figured out pretty quickly by trial and error on some scrap siding.
1) Cut 45 bevel (ends up with an angled butt end).
2) Used miter saw to identify what that angle was (about 7 degrees).
3) Set the miter to 7 degrees when cutting 45 bevel and voila'. Vertical profile and 45 bevel.
Math? Who needs ya? : )