My Weekend Project…

Well I was asked by my brother to come over to the house and give him a hand with putting Cedar siding on the front of his house. As we worked our way up the house putting the cedar siding in place it had become apparent that we needed to work on a quick fixture used to cut the long angles on the 4/12 slop of the roof angle. We determined that we would need to cut the same angle many times to complete the job.

Here is a series of photos showing the fixture we used to make the cuts on the 4/12 slop.

The first photo is of the fixture itself that used a piece of plywood to mark the angle that needed to be cut, the second photo shows the additional piece of plywood that was put in place to guide the circular saw’s base down the angle, the third photo is a shot of the
finished Cedar siding.

This was a very simple fixture that was used to make sure that all of angle cuts were made perfectly. This kind of fixture makes you look like a professional every time and only takes a few minutes to make it. You plan and create one angle and then use it to cut all the angles at the same degree.

I know this is not a router fixture but it is still a fixture in the simplest form that is used with the portable circular saw. This fixture could easily be converted to be used with the router in mind.

That’s it for this post, Happy Routing,

Rick