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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
By:Bryan Hansel
Date: 11/1/2011, 9:54 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass (Clayton Plunkett)

: What I understood you were thinking of is building a SOF and
: covering it with a skin that acts like a release for molding a
: Fiber glass kayak. The glass kayak then being removed from the
: mold or plug and finished out with a clean interior ( no frame
: work). This resulting in a glass laminate kayak with hard chine
: like the SOF plug it was molded from.

: What I did is use the frames for station forms. Cover them with
: wood strips and laminate the glass to the wood inside and out.
: Resulting in a glass laminate kayak with hard chine like the SOF
: would have been, only with no frames or stringers inside. It
: seemed to me to be very similar in the end result.

: Your thoughts?

So, you built a SOF and laminated the wood strips on the outside then removed the stringers? Or did you use the frames as forms in the normal way that you build a cedar stripper?

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Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 10/30/2011, 12:34 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Mike Savage -- 10/30/2011, 5:03 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 10/30/2011, 5:07 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Robert W. -- 10/30/2011, 5:27 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bill Hamm -- 10/31/2011, 1:47 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 11:23 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 11/1/2011, 3:40 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 9:43 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bill Hamm -- 11/1/2011, 4:22 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 9:56 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Roy Martin -- 11/1/2011, 10:04 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 10:11 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Roy Martin -- 11/1/2011, 10:17 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Roy Martin -- 11/1/2011, 10:19 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/2/2011, 12:15 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 11:25 am
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Mike Savage -- 11/1/2011, 2:26 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bill Hamm -- 11/1/2011, 4:06 pm
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StephenHJ -- 11/1/2011, 5:18 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 10:06 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bill Hamm -- 11/2/2011, 1:48 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Mike Savage -- 11/2/2011, 11:53 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 10:01 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bill Hamm -- 11/2/2011, 1:52 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bill Hamm -- 11/2/2011, 1:53 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Mike Savage -- 11/2/2011, 12:09 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/2/2011, 12:52 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Mike Savage -- 11/2/2011, 2:23 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass *PIC*
Clayton Plunkett -- 10/31/2011, 10:17 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 11:26 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Clayton Plunkett -- 11/1/2011, 11:59 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 9:54 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bill Hamm -- 11/2/2011, 1:58 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Matthew Bastian -- 10/31/2011, 3:57 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
ancient kayaker -- 10/31/2011, 4:50 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 11:29 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 11/1/2011, 3:42 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bill Hamm -- 11/1/2011, 4:28 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 9:44 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Roy Martin -- 11/1/2011, 10:28 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Jim Kretz -- 11/1/2011, 11:33 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
greg h -- 11/1/2011, 1:21 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bob Beaullieu -- 11/1/2011, 3:19 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bill Hamm -- 11/1/2011, 4:16 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 9:52 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Seamless Fiberglass
Bryan Hansel -- 11/1/2011, 9:47 pm