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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Scarf joint ratio
By:Bill Mayberry
Date: 10/27/2011, 8:35 am
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: Tips from an incomplete idiot *PIC* (Kirk Fredericks)

: I'm building a Yost Sea Flea for a friend's daughter. I had to
: extend the gunwales to get 12 feet. I'd had simple scarf joints
: open up on the first one I built, so I scarfed and braced these.

Your scarf joint looks to be about a 2 to 1 ratio. Make them 8 to 1 and they won't open up on you. Of course they have to be a solid fit and properly glued ......
Bill

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Tips from an incomplete idiot *PIC*
Kirk Fredericks -- 10/26/2011, 9:47 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tips from an incomplete idiot
Kevin McAtee -- 10/27/2011, 3:14 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tips from an incomplete idiot
Bill Hamm -- 10/27/2011, 3:42 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tips from an incomplete idiot
Kirk Fredericks -- 10/27/2011, 5:21 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tips from an incomplete idiot
Bill Hamm -- 10/30/2011, 2:58 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tips from an incomplete idiot
Craig Robinson -- 10/27/2011, 4:38 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Scarf joint ratio
Bill Mayberry -- 10/27/2011, 8:35 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Scarf joint ratio
Kirk Fredericks - Farback Carpentry and Automation -- 10/27/2011, 11:41 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Scarf joint ratio
ancient kayaker -- 10/27/2011, 4:16 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Scarf joint ratio
Bill Hamm -- 10/27/2011, 4:38 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tips from an incomplete idiot
Mike Bielski -- 10/27/2011, 9:44 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tips from an incomplete idiot
Bob Beaullieu -- 10/27/2011, 12:17 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tips from an incomplete idiot
Bill Hamm -- 10/27/2011, 12:44 pm