I was scarfing some plywood [4mm okuome] with a block plane [a great invention] but try as i might my scarfs werent up to snuff. When glued together they just didnt lay nearly flush enough. This really unerved me as I thought I really took my time and patience with the task.

Well, with my jigsaw, I cut all the plywood scarfs off and started anew. This time however I went beyond just block planing and finished the scarfed ends with a dremel. i first tried sandpaper on a block of wood, but this was way too slow. Instead, just a light light brush with a dremel at 15,000 rpm's and those scarfs were PERFECT. This rotary tool let me make the most delicatley tapered ends that, I'm sorry, no block plane would allow.

Who knows, maybe more experience planing would have made the dremel uneeded. Whats ceratin however, is that with a careful hand [and some dremel experience] the rotary tool provided a shortcut to achieving some crisp edges I dotn believe i wouldve achieved otherwise.

Pete