What router bit would you need to make horizontal wooden siding?
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What profile are you looking for? If you are trying to make Dutch Lap siding, You will need a T&G set, and a round bead. Plank siding is just plain sawed wood, plained on one side. Tapered siding is plain sawed, or quarter sawed, or even split out of a log. Neither Plank, nor Tapered requires a router.
There are other styles of siding, plus other archetectural ornaments, such as corbels, dentil, and brackets. The router could be useful in the manufacture of some of these.
You would be better-off getting a shaper with the head shapes that were recommended. Even with a router table it is hard to control the passage of the wood past the router cutters. The shaper makes it easy and keeps you from ruining a long piece of wood.
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