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Re: Strip: vinyl foam hybrid?
By:Steve Solomon
Date: 9/29/2016, 6:25 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: vinyl foam hybrid? (anewhouse)

That may well be true. I'm completely speculating here - I haven't actually tried any of this, haven't even built my first kayak yet but I hope to do one this winter, that's why I've been researching, reading, and watching many videos of people sanding stuff.

I've been assuming that if you had enough forms in there, that you could bend these sheets around them, or just cut them up and glue them together however you needed to using a utility knife or whatever. I know that the cut-ability and conformability vary considerably, though.

Also, it occurs to me that fiberglass on top of wood looks good because of the wood, but normally fiberglass products are made by starting with a layer of gelcoat in a polished mold, so just trying to layer resin on top of foam might end up looking awful no matter how much you sand it. I don't know.

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Strip: vinyl foam hybrid?
Steve Solomon -- 9/29/2016, 9:46 am
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Thomas Duncan -- 9/29/2016, 11:06 am
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Steve Solomon -- 9/29/2016, 11:15 am
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Etienne Muller -- 9/29/2016, 12:16 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 9/29/2016, 12:29 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/29/2016, 12:36 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 9/29/2016, 1:04 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/29/2016, 12:34 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/29/2016, 12:40 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 9/29/2016, 1:34 pm
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Les Cheeseman -- 9/29/2016, 4:42 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 9/29/2016, 5:41 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/29/2016, 9:11 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 9/29/2016, 10:07 pm
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John VB -- 9/30/2016, 8:46 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/30/2016, 10:37 am
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Steve Solomon -- 9/30/2016, 11:07 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/30/2016, 1:59 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 9/30/2016, 3:55 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/30/2016, 4:36 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 9/30/2016, 4:58 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/30/2016, 6:46 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 10/1/2016, 9:51 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/1/2016, 1:06 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/2/2016, 12:13 am
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anewhouse -- 9/29/2016, 6:15 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 9/29/2016, 6:25 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 9/30/2016, 10:37 am
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Steve Solomon -- 9/30/2016, 12:07 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 9/30/2016, 12:53 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 9/30/2016, 1:54 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/1/2016, 1:04 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/1/2016, 1:48 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 10/4/2016, 6:25 am
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Steve Solomon -- 10/4/2016, 7:42 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/4/2016, 11:53 am
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Mark N -- 10/4/2016, 1:17 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/4/2016, 3:27 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/6/2016, 1:53 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/6/2016, 2:14 pm
Re: Strip: vinyl foam hybrid?
JohnAbercrombie -- 10/4/2016, 11:59 am