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Re: Monkey Glue Blues
By:garland reese
Date: 10/25/1999, 9:00 pm
In Response To: Monkey Glue Blues (Randy Ames)

> I finally started stripping my 18 foot canoe schooner. A friend suggested
> sticking the strips together with Gorilla Glue. It expands nicely and
> fills any voids. I seem to be getting some glue on the sides of the boat.
> Has anyone worked with this type of glue? Can you suggest a way to remove
> the glue from the sides of the boat. I tried a paint scraper with good
> success... slow going though.

Since I used square edged strips instead of bead and cove, I had a bit more fairing to do on my wee lassie II. I also had some excess glue squeeze-out that i missed, especially on the inside of the hull where I could not easily see as I wiped up after gluing. I had a couple of 1" planes. I used these, set fine, to take off the glue. One of them, I ground down to a convex shape, so that I could get at the blige areas inside the hull. This was time consuming, but it worked....I had a lot of planing/fairing to do anyway, due to choosing not to use bead and cove strips. I've never had much luck with cabinet scrapers after they get dull, obviously 'cause I didn't know what I was doing when re-edging them (thanks for the information on using cabinet scrapers!). the plane edge seemed more durable than a scraper and I could easily get a good edge on the plane iron. I went at about 45 degrees to the strips/glue drips when using the plane, the same as recommended when fairing. garland

Messages In This Thread

Monkey Glue Blues
Randy Ames -- 10/23/1999, 8:06 pm
Re: Monkey Glue Blues
garland reese -- 10/25/1999, 9:00 pm
Cabinet scraper, to the rescue!
Ed Valley -- 10/25/1999, 2:38 pm
moisten, scrape, then sand
Pete Ford -- 10/25/1999, 11:50 am
Re: Monkey Glue Blues
Don Beale -- 10/23/1999, 11:00 pm
Re: Monkey Glue Blues
Rehd -- 10/23/1999, 11:51 pm
Re: Monkey Glue Blues
David Bryson -- 10/23/1999, 10:27 pm
Re: Monkey Glue Blues
Rehd -- 10/23/1999, 9:43 pm