Mast Splice

[Capnblu@shaw.ca]

Hello Sirs.
I have a isomat ng 86 that was broken right at the lower spreaders. The break was fairly clean, leaving a short section bent that I intend to cut out. The base of the mast also received a wrinkle that will need to be removed. I thought I would sleve the mast at the spreaders, and put the extension (to bring back to stock legnth) piece at the base. After reading the various threads on splicing, I feel good about following your techniques. I believe the dimension of it is 9.7" X 6.8" If I understand correctly my splice should extend into each end of the existing mast. So a total of about 60" splice, right? Do I understand correctly that you notch a V out of the width of the splice end, or do you taper the thickness of the splice?

Thanks Brian