: hi rehd,

: not that the other methods don't work, but i wonder if you could do a
: no-brainer hybrid scarf/butt joint that wouldn't take a lot if skill to
: accomplish and yet get the thinness of the scarf w/ relative ease of a
: butt.

: the idea would be to turn the 2 panels upside down so the back is exposed and
: butt them up against each other near (not necessarily on) the edge of the
: bench and clamp them in this position(from the edge or over the top w/
: short scraps screwed into the bench and over the top on ea side) leaving
: say 3in free on ea side of the touching panels. then sand into this area
: w/ a grinder going the 12xthickness sanded thru ea way. sand sort of a
: dish or concave shaped depression stopping on the join as soon as the
: lowest(face veneer is reached).

: then lay in subseqently smaller layers of epoxy and glass, let set up and
: sand flushish.

: then you get an equivalent of a scarf joint, a thick face veneer, a fairly
: easily uncompromised line where the 2 match.

: I like this ideas as you could overlap the ply before laying out the panels
: and double cut the ply on any complex pattern or curvature or slant, dish
: this whatever join line and still get the equivalent of the thinner less
: awkward(storage and moving around) scarf joint but with none of the
: hassles of trying to carefully scarf the face veneer.

: i'm not saying the other methods don't work fine, but that this might be
: another interesting way that would open up other directions

: -mick

Hey Mick you got my head reeling on that one, but what do you think the time factor would be?? Seems like it would be a little more work entensive. ??

Rehd