Hey tractorman44 , welcome aboard. Ship-lap is a good option and not too tough to mill yourself (especially Cedar).......if you have the time. tjcole50 , where ya' at in this project?
Thanks guys for the welcome....it took me a little to figure out the pic upload from a Fuji camera through a Chromebook. It looks a little large, but oh well. This is a section of my basement wainscoating that's about 36" tall with a narrow shelf on top to cover the 2x2 firring strips. It's not visible, but its trimmed under the shelf to the ship-lap cedar with about a 3" cedar crown moulding....talk about incongruencies (such a rudimentary wood joint as a ship-lap trimmed in a classy crown moulding). Well now, I just noticed the picture is too short to pick up the crown, so you'll just hafta take my word for it.... This is face nailed with 18 ga nails and from 3 feet, they are unnoticeable unless you're looking for them. This was tacked up somewhere around 1988 or so and it is unfinished, just planed to 5/8" and lapped. Some call it a 'half-lap' and others call it a 'ship-lap'....and I call it at least halfway decent for a poor boy like me. Myself, my dad and brother cut this cedar in '75 and sawed it on an old Fisher and Davis mill powered by a '36 Buick in-line 8. Even after all my projects, there's still a couple thousand board feet of the cedar in a lean-to waiting for the next big honey-do. Not meaning to hijack the original thread with this drivel, but I wanted to prove I wasn't a SpamBot.... and to give the O.P. an idea of what it would like. Oh yeah, did I say I like cedar too ....????
