Redbeard got it right- as long as you draw or snap lines on the wall every 6" (or whatever reveal you want for the width boards you cut) the layers will all lay flat against each other, no problem. I think the ERC is the best looking live edge siding. If you need to use the debarker just put a sacrifice cant up against the stops and that will help debarker reach the smaller logs but you will see your debarker cut on the natural edge. This will give you two live edges to chose from, and a better choice to use your natural angles. On the sawing part of it if you want to use the natural angle then its best to just saw your first cut flip log 180 and flat saw down as far as you can with your chosen thickness, I like 5/8''. If you want to get fancy you can flip flop the taper on each end of your building. If you notice on your live edge siding that their will be a natural angle when the bark falls off you want to try and take advantage of that and keep the steep part of angle down this helps with moisture sheding. Your starter is the same thickness material that your using just that it is 1-1/2" or 2" wide then lay your 6''- 8'' wide siding with bottom edge being the live edge flush with bottom of starter ,this will give you a taper and you can continue up the wall with your chosen spacing. and i dont know if it matters but i'm sawing on a timberking TK2000 bandmill. somewhere to go during hunting season and a once in a while for a weekend to get away. could you just saw the log three sided put one sawed edge up against my log stops one on the carriage and one up having the live side towards my log dog and saw my boards out that way? or do they need to be tapered some way to allow for the overlap? keep in mind this is going to be a "camp" nothing fancy, maybe 20x30 with propane lights, a woodstove and an outhouse, not a primary residence. my question is how do you go about sawing these boards out. But someone i work with mentioned he had seen this other type of siding before he didn't know the name of it, but i did some research and i found live edge siding where each board has one live edge on it and you would overlap them kind of like clap boards and i really liked the look. I was thinking of doing board and baton siding because i could saw them all to the width i wanted ahead of time instead of ripping them on a table saw or something to save time and money. I'm looking at building a camp hopefully next summer (2012) and i'm thinking i'll pick up enough logs and saw them out this winter to build it on my own.
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