# What happened to my scarf joints?

**URL:** <https://forum.clcboats.com/t/what-happened-to-my-scarf-joints/41954>\
**Category:** Builder's Forum\
**Created:** [March 18, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/what-happened-to-my-scarf-joints/41954 "2014-03-18T23:00:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bret\_Warner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Bret\_Warner](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Bret_Warner)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/what-happened-to-my-scarf-joints/41954/1 "2014-03-18T23:00:48Z")

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I am currently building second Kaholo, and second build total, and had some funky stuff go on when gluing scarf joints for the side panels today. When I took the weights off about 12 hours after starting the epoxy had expanded enough so that I could see in between the two pieces. The weight I used was the same as last time, and all those joints came out fine. I did fiddle with the planks after putting the wax paper and weights on so maybe I screwed it up then but I wanted to see about similar issues out there so the same thing doesn't happen when I sart the process over tomorrow.&nbsp;

By the way I was going to fix it by cutting out that one inch and re scarfing the same pieces. If I remember correctly the Kaholo 14 side pieces should give me enough room to work with on this since currently the side planks are just big 16 ft long rectangles and I have not cut out the sides yet. This should work right?

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**Author:** ![Timothy\_Broyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@Timothy\_Broyer](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Timothy_Broyer)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/what-happened-to-my-scarf-joints/41954/2 "2014-03-19T07:57:50Z")

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&nbsp; &nbsp;A picture would be very helpful here. &nbsp;

I wouldn't cut it. &nbsp;I didn't have that much left over to cut off on my build.

Take a heat gun and soften the joint to break it open. &nbsp;Clean it all back up and try again. &nbsp;Good luck.

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**Author:** ![Bret\_Warner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Bret\_Warner](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Bret_Warner)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/what-happened-to-my-scarf-joints/41954/3 "2014-03-19T19:14:59Z")

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&nbsp; &nbsp;Heat gun worked. Thanks. I forgot to take a picture before I took them apart. I think I just fiddled with them too much after the weights were on and got some wax paper wedged in the&nbsp;

joints.&nbsp;