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Strip: Scarffing with finger jointer
By:JohnK
Date: 2/18/2011, 7:43 pm

I am gearing up for my next kayak. I've got some 8' boards of king billy pine and they have to be scarfed.
We have had countless threads on scarfing, but I had an idea, why not buy a finger jointer for my router, bundle a bunch of strips together and do them at one pass, do another bundle to match and glue them together. A simple spring clamp over the join would suffice to hold them together and just leave them to set on a straight surface. Or one could join the boards and cut the strips after..
Anyone tried it?
JohnK

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Scarffing with finger jointer
JohnK -- 2/18/2011, 7:43 pm
Re: Strip: Scarffing with finger jointer
Paul R -- 2/18/2011, 9:03 pm
Re: Strip: Scarffing with finger jointer
JohnK -- 2/19/2011, 8:05 pm
Re: Strip: Scarffing with finger jointer
Paul R -- 2/19/2011, 8:47 pm
Re: Scarfing with finger jointer--don't bother *PIC*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/19/2011, 1:00 pm
Re: Scarfing with finger jointer--don't bother
Michael -- 2/19/2011, 3:05 pm
Re: Scarfing with finger jointer--don't bother *PIC*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/20/2011, 5:52 am
Re: Scarfing with finger jointer--don't bother
Michael -- 2/20/2011, 11:09 am
Re: Scarfing with finger jointer--don't bother
Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2011, 5:09 pm
Re: Scarfing with finger jointer--don't bother *PIC*
Kurt Maurer -- 2/19/2011, 6:56 pm
Re: Scarfing with finger jointer--don't bother
Bill Hamm -- 2/21/2011, 12:55 am
Re: Scarfing with finger jointer--don't bother
Bill Hamm -- 2/21/2011, 1:13 am
Re: Scarfing out knots
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/21/2011, 3:21 am
Re: Scarfing out knots
Etienne Muller - ireland -- 2/21/2011, 5:15 am
Re: Scarfing out knots
Bill Hamm -- 2/21/2011, 1:41 pm
OT: other type of scarf *PIC*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/21/2011, 3:31 pm
Re: OT: other type of scarf
Bill Hamm -- 2/22/2011, 1:42 am
Re: Scarfing out knots
Bill Hamm -- 2/21/2011, 1:40 pm
Re: Strip: Scarffing with finger jointer
JohnK -- 2/19/2011, 8:08 pm
Re: Strip: Scarffing with finger jointer
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/20/2011, 4:58 am
Re: Strip: Scarffing with finger jointer
ancient kayaker -- 2/25/2011, 10:51 pm