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bring it forth and let the healing waters . . .
By:Paul G. Jacobson@aol.com
Date: 6/19/2001, 10:23 pm
In Response To: smoked glass kayak (Dave M)

: Am I screwed???

Nah, just a bit delayed. In the areas where you have uncured resin just sand down to the wood and patch the spots with cloth and fresh resin. Sand the areas so that you have an area around the site which gently tapers down from the finsihed surface to the wood. This tapered, or feathered, area provides a strong, overlapping area in the glass and resin layer, similar to a scarf joint in plywood. After applying your new glass and resin, put on one fill coat and then sand down any overlapping material that is high of the rest of the surface before putting on the final fill coat or coats.

Then you get to varnish.

: It is much too ugly to bring to Conn., unless It needs to be seen by you
: doctors to find a cure. What to do??

You can probably do the patches before you hit the road. Get a few "second opinions" from folks at the beach before you varnish. You can go without varnish for weeks or months. Paddle the thing a while before you make it too pretty to ride. :)

PGJ

Messages In This Thread

smoked glass kayak
Dave M -- 6/19/2001, 7:27 pm
bring it forth and let the healing waters . . .
Paul G. Jacobson@aol.com -- 6/19/2001, 10:23 pm