: I was scarfing some plywood [4mm okuome] with a block plane [a great
: invention] but try as i might my scarfs werent up to snuff. When glued
: together they just didnt lay nearly flush enough. This really unerved me
: as I thought I really took my time and patience with the task.

: Well, with my jigsaw, I cut all the plywood scarfs off and started anew. This
: time however I went beyond just block planing and finished the scarfed
: ends with a dremel. i first tried sandpaper on a block of wood, but this
: was way too slow. Instead, just a light light brush with a dremel at
: 15,000 rpm's and those scarfs were PERFECT. This rotary tool let me make
: the most delicatley tapered ends that, I'm sorry, no block plane would
: allow.

: Who knows, maybe more experience planing would have made the dremel uneeded.
: Whats ceratin however, is that with a careful hand [and some dremel
: experience] the rotary tool provided a shortcut to achieving some crisp
: edges I dotn believe i wouldve achieved otherwise.

: Pete

I used mine to take care of those hardenned epoxy runs. With a flat gridding stone and a careful hand, I can flatten those unsightly run with no time. I knew I should have taken care of those runs with a scraper while it is still green, but I did not have all the time to sit and wait for the legendary Raka slow cure epoxy to stop running before the mosquito start biting.