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Re: Tight Wovensmooth Glass
By:Mike Hanks
Date: 10/29/1999, 11:26 am
In Response To: Re: Tight Wovensmooth Glass (lee)

> Mike, so far it looks like 3 for,2 against, of those that have used it. My
> glass fetish has been 4oz S-glass from JR.Sweet. It doesn't seem to go as
> completely invisible as regular glass (small survey here,3 weights/two
> suppliers/three boats but it looks clear from 3ft away). Seems to me for
> all the effort folks are going through one might as well go for a
> seemingly stronger glass. But untill there's some kind of comparisons it's
> still a lot of fun educated guessing.

> I think the places I heard high thread count harness weave was used was in
> blades, helmets, that sort of thing. Can you or anybody explain
> "harness weave" "woven smooth" in more detail?

I don't know what harness weave means, it was just part of the description on the RAKA website. I take wovensmooth to mean just that, and not a coarse weave, but I may be wrong on this. I've only glassed one kayak before and everything came it a kit, so all this is new to me.

Mike

Messages In This Thread

Tight Wovensmooth Glass
Mike Hanks -- 10/26/1999, 7:41 pm
Re: Tight Woven Smooth Glass
Mike Hanks -- 11/2/1999, 1:02 am
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Grant Goltz -- 10/29/1999, 8:29 pm
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lee -- 10/27/1999, 5:57 pm
Re: Tight Wovensmooth Glass
Mike Hanks -- 10/27/1999, 7:53 pm
Re: Tight Wovensmooth Glass
lee -- 10/29/1999, 2:38 am
Re: Tight Wovensmooth Glass
Mike Hanks -- 10/29/1999, 11:26 am
Re: Tight Wovensmooth Glass
lee -- 10/29/1999, 2:04 pm
Satin weave? Been there.
Ed Valley -- 10/27/1999, 3:06 pm
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Dan Lindberg -- 10/27/1999, 2:22 pm
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Jay Babina -- 10/27/1999, 8:46 am
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Don Beale -- 10/27/1999, 11:21 am
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Don Beale -- 10/27/1999, 1:10 am
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Marty H -- 10/27/1999, 9:38 am
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Don Beale -- 10/27/1999, 11:18 am