Good Morning Friends,

What is meant by the term " scarf cut?"

An angled cut, usually 25-30 degrees, to make a scarf joint. (Ya need two)

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  Some scarf joints are just a simple angled cut, like on baseboard trim.   Just a 456 to make a longer run of trim, without the joint showing.

 

 Other scarf joints can be a little more involved.  Some will even have a keyway to lock the joint together.   These would have two angled cuts, with a flat area between them.  A dado across the flat will house a key.   The angle on these kind of joints slope a different way though.    Any idea which way?

 

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'and may the road raise up to meet ye'

AND, scarf cuts are usually made to extend the length of a board or baseboards..  AND, they are on an angle to minimize seeing an opening when the wood dries and shrinks. 

Larry

Good Morning Fellows,

A scarf cut is as you stated to extend the length of trim or baseboard in the long running wall that one piece of trim will not cover. Also in furniture repair such as a broken rung in a chair where a child stood on it and broke the rung both in the middle and at the leg.

You can make a 60º cut on the new rung that you have first made sure it was long enough to fit into the mortises in the legs after you drill them out, so when you insert the new pieces into the mortises and pulled the scarf joint together with glue and wrapped it with thin wire or use a clamp till the glue dried. By using a cut as described it will be hard to see the joint if you pull it together correctly and you repaired the rung without having to dismantle the entire chair.