I'm in the tool making mode this year. Need to replace my wooden tip scarfing block.
Anybody know where I can get plans for such a critter? (Don Anderson)
Garrison's book pages 223-230 deals with scarfing. Plans are on page 224 & 229. (Don Schneider)
Sure. Several years ago I got tired of making scarfing blocks out of wood so I made a scarfing block out of left over 1x1 CRS cutoffs about 12" long from making Forms. I used a piece of 1/8" thick x 1/2" wide cold roll with a 60° angle on one edge and a 90° on the other placed at the slope according to Garrison's plans countersunk & screwed to one of the sides. Used thumb screws to pull the sides together to clamp the bamboo. You can scarf on either side. To file the 60° angle on the one edge of the center piece I made a jig out of hardwood with a 60° slot to hold the file. (Don Schneider)
I've made 4 rods. I have one broken tip section on one of mine. Not splintered. A snap break in half.
I need instruction to purchase or better yet build a scarf block.
I'd like to learn/ practice repair on my rod. Also, any input on my idea to build a one piece 3 wt. 7foot. Build in two sections then scarf together. Cause my oven is only 5 ft. (Ryan Thompson)
Make a short section of rod the same dimensions as the part that's been snapped. This is what you use to rejoin the broken sections unless you're happy to just join the break and make the rod shorter as a result.
Make a scarfing block first so you get a good clean accurate scarf. Easiest way to do this is get 3 lengths of 1/2" pine a couple of inches wide and a foot long. Left face, middle and right face laminates. These are laminated together with the middle laminate set at an angle of 1:12 relative to the other two laminate sandwiching it. That is, get the left face laminate and draw a 1:12 slope relative to the top edge along the face. glue the middle laminate with it's top edge along this sloping line and glue the right face parallel with the left face.
When the glue's cured cut these so you have a block that will fit in your vise easily. The middle laminate will be sticking out of the bottom between the other two faces, plane this flush.
Slide the sections along the sloping face of the block until it sticks up though the block and plane level with the edges of the block, do this for all the sections you're scarfing and they'll all have the same slop and a good scarf to glue.
Glue the scarf and if it was me bind it with white silk then varnish it without preserver and you'll hardly notice it was ever broken or that there's silk there. (Tony Young)
