Seth Vernon from Double Haul Guide Service, and Nick Balding from Balding Brothers Construction helped Beau and I lay the glass, which was a huge help. We knocked out the glass work in an hour, give or take.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Done with Glass!!!
My forearms could be in an Aveda ad. They are practically hairless due to the fact that every week for the past 6 months I have been ripping globs of cured epoxy off of them. Last week I finished glassing the boat. A rail was put around the boat to create the look of a cap, and also to hide the seam where the deck and hull come together. I sanded the edges down, and flattened everything out before glassing. I dry fit the glass as well as the peel ply, and then got to glassing. It went really easy this time. I used West Systems, which just made a really big difference. The other stuff I used is less expensive, and if I had it to do again, I would still use the cheaper stuff for mixing up cab when I need to adhere parts together, and to pull fillets. But when it comes to laying glass, I would use all West Systems. I would estimate that it would have taken me right at 4 gallons of the US Composites to wet out the top side of the boat, and it took about 2.5 gallons of West. The difference is pretty substantial.
Seth Vernon from Double Haul Guide Service, and Nick Balding from Balding Brothers Construction helped Beau and I lay the glass, which was a huge help. We knocked out the glass work in an hour, give or take.
Seth Vernon from Double Haul Guide Service, and Nick Balding from Balding Brothers Construction helped Beau and I lay the glass, which was a huge help. We knocked out the glass work in an hour, give or take.
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