[Belg]

Good morning, I have joined because I need a little help figuring out how to make a jig to cut shim type shingles for a model. I basically need to make them tapered on both sides just like the full size version, but need them to be about 3.5" long.
I have a tablesaw, bandsaw, mitersaw, and most other tools for a good shop but am just stumped on how to produce these reliably dimensional.
I have been working with wood for a while as a hobby and have not build many projects but what I have produced are wall shelves, potters bench, birdhouses, planters.... you get the idea.
Hope I can contribute as much as I get from working with you. Thanks Pat

[RandyM68]

Welcome to the forum. We're glad to have you.
I can't remember a jig for cutting shingles, but I'm sure there's a way to do it. Let us think about it for awhile, I bet we can come up with something.

[GarageWoodworks]

First I'd like to say welcome to the forum. If I understand your shim problem correctly, making a small ramp type jig and using a router might work. You would need to use the ramp on one side and flip it around for the other. See here:

How wide and how thick do they taper to?

[Tom]

Welcome to the forum. If one of these guys can't figure it out for you nobody can! Once again welcome and enjoy.

[RandyM68]

I've got what I think is a simple idea for cutting the wedges. It may be harder to explain it than it is to do it, though.
First, I don't think you need to cut both sides. You could cut twice the angle on one side, and then trim the ends to make it look right
I would make a jig that rides in the miter slot on the table saw. You are basically resawing a board, but you want to run it through at an angle. Make a vertical "fence" that is skewed at 10 or 15 degrees to the blade. Make it the same height as the width of your shingle blanks. Put a piece across the top and tap it for a set screw that will hold the blank down on the "fat corner, away from the blade, and run it through the saw. You can probably cut all the way through in one pass, if not, flip the blank upside down, with the same face against the fence, and cut the rest of the way through. You will have a wedge, but if you trim both ends perpendicular to the centerline, it will look like it is tapered on both sides.
I hope that helps, it seems like it should work.