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Other: Trimming @ shearline after glassing the hull
By:pikabike
Date: 12/3/2003, 11:37 pm

How do you get a nice clean edge cut when the cloth hangs down from the upside-down hull? I imagine the epoxy will wick into the cloth below the shearline despite best efforts to only apply it on the cloth lying directly on the hull. Can I use scissors to cut cloth that has green epoxy on it? I have used a utility knife to trim glass off the edges of butt joints but in that case I could place the panel so that the glass was on top of a hard surface to cut against. With a hull, I'd be "cutting against the air."

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Other: Trimming @ shearline after glassing the hull
pikabike -- 12/3/2003, 11:37 pm
Re: Other: Razor Blade and Spokeshave
Chip Sandresky -- 12/4/2003, 2:09 pm
Re: Ack!
pikabike -- 12/4/2003, 3:58 pm
Cut with knife
Rod Tait -- 12/4/2003, 2:09 am
Re: Deck is already built and joined to hull
pikabike -- 12/4/2003, 3:49 pm
Re: Cut with knife
Mike Scarborough -- 12/4/2003, 9:44 am
Re: Other: Trimming @ shearline after glassing the
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/4/2003, 12:27 am
Re: Other: Trimming @ shearline after glassing the
LeeG -- 12/3/2003, 11:56 pm