: Have you had any problems with the scarfs breaking with those kind of
: lengths? I've considered doing just that but didn't know if the joints
: would hold up. Does it create a problem just scarfing the pieces in place?

hi;
i have had no trouble with breakage. what i did was cut the scarf ACROSS THE WIDTH of the board so that my strips are scarfed THROUGH THE THICKNESS.
also.. scarfs are 8/1. my material is yellow cedar. (cypress?)
i've not tried to scarf in place, so i can't answer that question.
best regards;
daren......