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Permalink Reply by John Davidson on July 20, 2012 at 6:04am

I live in an apartment so power tools are out for me.

My solution for scarf joints was to build a hand miter box.

 

The saw blade is at 90° to the box and I used the blade to setup a miter guide.

The miter guide is simply a straight 1x2 long enough, be generous, to clamp the neck for the cut.

 

The trick is to start with the miter guide parallel to the saw blade and move the 'far end' until you have the angle you want.

I found it easier to make the cuts with the miter guide and neck stock away from me and sticking out of the back of the box.

I suppose you could set the guide up as adjustable but I screwed and glued mine down at 74° from the box giving me a 16° scarf joint.

One of the first things I built with this miter box was was a parallelogram to glue up two scarf joints at a time.

John

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