> From: Larry Howell Scarffing Made Easy > > I am behind in mentioning this scarfing tool. > I was on Mustang Island this past spring visiting the Farley boat works > museum and then their boat building shop operated by volunteers. If one is > interested in building a wooden boat, go there and they will help you build > it in their facility. They scarf 1/2" thick plywood to build their boats. > While I was there in the wood working/boat building shop I spotted this rig > over on one of their work benches. I went over to take photos and figure out > how it works. Their electric hand held wood planer is attached to this rig. > This rig holds the planing machine at the proper angle and the low side has a > lip/guide that is down low enough so that it guides and slides against the > edge of your wood or plywood as you push your electric planer across the wood > or plywood to machine the angle scarf. Then it will be against the edge of > your table where your plywood is aligned and clamped down as the edge of your > plywood becomes too pointed and fragile to support the dragging tool. I might > presume that one pass may be all that is required on thin plywood with this > setup. The boat guys are scarfing 1/2" plywood so multiple passes are > required to get down to a point. > I hope I have explained this well enough.
> If not look at one at the link below and see if it makes more sense or let me > know and I will try again. > > http://www.johnhenryinc.com/ > > > Larry H > >
