Siding my Pierce

[peggyquade]

I am finally done putting the siding on the Pierce! What a job! But I just put the last piece of siding on the tower of the Pierce I am doing for my friend Sheila. I have a lot of wood puttying and sanding to do and then I'll take some pictures and post them. Hard work as it was, I really like the long sight lines of the siding along the sides of the house and I think I would like to do siding on my own Pierce (glutten for punishment, what can I say?). I have been using 1/2" wide strips of wood, overlapping them about 1/16" but I do have a few pieces of already beveled strips of wood...does anyone know where you can buy that? I thought Micro-Mark sold it but all they have is flat wood, sheets of siding, dowels, etc. I would like to find the individual strips of already beveled wood, preferably cedar.

Sheila wants me now to paint the whole exterior with a white primer...that will be interesting to see...talk about the white Orchid...this will be the white Annabelle! With white on the entire house, Sheila will then have a clean slate to be able to start painting the different colors she wants on the house.

[ilovecats]

What a bummer you can't keep the house! After all the hard work with the siding! I didn't realize you are building it for someone else!

It looks really cool with siding. I can't wait to see what colors she chooses. I love the transformation a house makes when the paintbrush hits it! I put 3 coats of paint on my federal before it looked the way i wanted it to!

Where do you get your siding? Do you buy individual pieces or does it come in bundles?

[peggyquade]

It's indivdual strips of wood that I've had for years but Micro Mark sells them in bundles of 10 for $7.85...24" long strips of basswood, 1/2" x 1/16". Mine were cedar but I don't know if you can get that anymore. I do have my own Pierce kit, waiting in the wings so doing Sheila's Pierce is a good way to figure out what I want to do with my own!