: Hi John;

: I've got some pix of Don Beale's vacuum jig up on my site, linked below.

: I really liked the look of your fancy scarfs! Cool! I opted to work with 1/2
: strips butt joined staggered around the middle of the boat. When I started
: with full length scarfed strips some poster called my experience with the
: 18' strips as "shelf sweepers" - I knocked over everything in my
: garage at least once . . . ;-)

: Best Regards, Spidey

Whatever it takes to keep the shelves clean. My current boat is all butt joints and I try to use long full length strips whenever possible. As long as the butt joint doesn't fall on a transitional point (curve, sciew, form) the butt joint works fine.

Roger