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Which Comes First: the hatches or the varnish?

Posted By: Jim Owens
Date: Monday, 23 July 2001, at 12:17 p.m.

I've completed glassing and sanding my Arctic Tern, and can't decide whether I should varnish it before putting in the hatches and bulkheads, or vice versa. It's tempting to get the varnishing over with, but I don't know whether cutting out the hatches and impregnating the edges of the hatch hole with epoxy will mar the varnish or otherwise screw up the finish. What's the consensus out there?

Messages In This Thread

Which Comes First: the hatches or the varnish?
Jim Owens -- Monday, 23 July 2001, at 12:17 p.m.

Re: Which Comes First: the hatches or the varnish?
Tom Jablonski -- Monday, 23 July 2001, at 1:32 p.m.

Re: Which Comes First: the hatches or the varnish?
Chris Menard -- Monday, 23 July 2001, at 1:58 p.m.

Re: Which Comes First
Doug K -- Monday, 23 July 2001, at 2:37 p.m.

varnish is last -- very last thing you put on. *NM*
Paul G. Jacobson@aol.com -- Monday, 23 July 2001, at 7:02 p.m.

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