This part was done more by eye more than anything else it takes 40-50 6' pressure treated fence pickets to complete.



I started with the center board and cut it to hang over the plywood so it looked good. then I put up a 1x3 furring strip up along the top edge of the siding, this is to space the upper pickets away from the building and let the water which hits them drip off and not run down the siding. the boards were cut on the ground by setting the miter saw to 22.5 degrees and the low side of one was the high side of the other. I started from the center nailing up boards with two 3.5" twist nails one up top and one on bottom through the furring strip. this step was done with wet fence pickets so they would shrink leaving a gap between each other, this spacing is important for this small of a blacksmiths shop it allows air to circulate and vents any stray smoke out side as it rises.



the eve vents are constructed by gluing and nailing a fence picket to the ends of the rafters and the underside of the rafters closest to the building. then gluing black aluminium window screen into the roughly 3" x24" openings to keep birds and bugs out.