I’m a trimmer by trade and a current job entails alot of radii walls. I’ve run flex before but always paint grade, this is all pre-finished stain (I voted on finishing in place but that didn’t happen) in long runs. The curved walls intersect flat walls. So…I can’t fill and sand to blend pieces (each one seems to have it’s own profile and dimensions) and the first scarf joint is a disaster. I cut it at 0 deg with a 45 bevel and the next mating piece didn’t mate at all, the top and bottom were hitting leaving the center open a quarter inch plus. I altered the bevel to almost forty and back sanded but the joint is barely exceptible (luckily its 18′ up) but it requires more work yet to polish off and I have a good two dozen pieces to fit. I traced the radius on the saw table so as to position each piece very close to where the saw cut is perpendicular to the curve’s tangent at the cut point. The pieces are formed at the correct radius as they fit well otherwise.
Should I saw without a bevel and use a butt joint with adhesive? Am I up a creek without a paddle? Is my only option to get close, fill, sand and refinish? Not looking forward to telling my boss that one.
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