2025 Devlin Snow Goose Thread

[HenryHawthorne]

I mean.... this doesnt look terrible. I dont know what any of this is, or how much area is done here, or why this step is needed to make a boat but I am assuming you made the tallest cut, moved the blade down, moved the board over a bit, turned saw on and repeated opposite direction to get next step down and repeated 27 times (it looks like), creating a ladder step down effect? Thats how Im interpreting these pictures right? I think this is exactly how I would do this. My only worry would be sliding the board back and forth so many times, getting thinner and thinner and it wanting to crumble from the weight. how thick was the sheet of wood? 3/4" and how much do you move the blade when making the next cut?

1 cut, at an angle (roughly 7 degrees). For joining 2 4x8 sheets into 1 4x16 sheet.

 

[Scott Gilliland]

Those look like the best scarfs I've seen. I made a jig for my track to cut 8:1 scarfs in 1/4" plywood -- it did not work. I then made a jig for my router to make the same cut. It worked on narrow cuts, but not on across a sheet of plywood. The issue was that there was always a slight bow in the plywood and dispute several attempts to hold the plywood flat - I could not figure it out. I ended up rough cutting and doing all the finish work with a hand plane. Those cuts of Tod's look perfect.

 

[Eric Patterson]

Tod

I think you learned that method from Harker. He stood on the top of his Powermatic 66 and pushed the sheet through on the short edge. It obviously works, as long as winds are calm I suppose.

 

[tod osier]

Those look like the best scarfs I've seen. I made a jig for my track to cut 8:1 scarfs in 1/4" plywood -- it did not work. I then made a jig for my router to make the same cut. It worked on narrow cuts, but not on across a sheet of plywood. The issue was that there was always a slight bow in the plywood and dispute several attempts to hold the plywood flat - I could not figure it out. I ended up rough cutting and doing all the finish work with a hand plane. Those cuts of Tod's look perfect.

Thanks, I like using the table saw in general, but in the end scarfing that way is so fast and easy it is ridiculous, I've stacked and sanded and it is fine, obviously. A 10" saw cuts just over 3", mine cut all but a small ridge that needed knocked down. The guide clamped to the plywood that rides on the extended fence made it easy to stop and start, so a no pressure job.