Scarfing

 With all the knots in my whitewood, I will be doing a lot of scarf joints. To make this as easy as possible I have made a little jig for my bandsaw that cuts the strips with a 1 in 8 slope. Its just an angled fence and some toggle clamps to make things quick and easy.

Once the scarfs are cut on the two ends, I am joining them using a 3d printed guide. This is made from PETG as this has poor adhesion to pva based wood glue (I am using Titebond original), so I don't need to use bits of polythene all over the place.

The method seems to work very nicely. I had also tested (and rejected) using a router or a disk sander to make the scarfs. In my hands both these methods gave untidy joints, and made too much dust and noise.






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