The perfect scarf can be done with the piece youÊneed the scarf on sandwiched between two other sacrificial pieces the same thickness. They need to be clamped equal distance apart. I'm pretty good with a good sharp low angle block plane but a belt sander works well. Here's the secret. Get the job 90% done and finish it with the pad sander with 100 grit. It's a bit slower than the belt sander and you can fine tune those layer stripes so they are perfectlyÊparallel.

If your searching for perfection, you want the sandwich to be the same wood so the cutting device is not riding on a harder surface anywhere. I clamp my 3 piece sandwich so the bottom layer is at the edge of a table or scrap of plywood.

All of this theory is good, but for most scarfs once you get it down a bit, I just put the plywood on the edge of a piece of plywood and use the plane and finish with the pad sander and get a damm good scarf using pencil lines for the length of the scarf.

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