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Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
By:Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K
Date: 6/11/2017, 10:47 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

The 9 oz pre-woven tape does not wet out as well as 4 ounce cloth. I have not found a source for lighter weight tapes, so I just cut strips from my roll. I cut bias strips as they conform better and don't unravel as much as straight cuts.

I never use seam tape on exterior surfaces because the finished edges of seam tape stand up and trap air bubbles.

I use the same weight glass as used on the hull/deck.

After fussing around for years, with excess scraps of glass, I now just cut 5" wide strips of glass off the edge of my 60" wide roll, so three pieces per side do the hull/deck joint. Stem edges and hull/deck joints near stems get special separate treatment with bias glass.This is so much easier/fun/fast than playing with scraps. Wide strips of glass conform better across the hull/deck joint when wet-out and are easier to trim with masked edges.

IMO - Cutting bias cloth and handling long accordion like pieces of glass is a PITA and is not needed on my designs.

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Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
Philip Freeman -- 6/10/2017, 10:05 pm
Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
JohnAbercrombie -- 6/10/2017, 11:03 pm
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Bob Ten Eyck -- 6/10/2017, 11:18 pm
Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 6/11/2017, 8:44 am
Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
Philip Freeman -- 6/11/2017, 9:47 am
Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 6/11/2017, 1:38 pm
Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/11/2017, 10:12 am
Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 6/11/2017, 10:47 am
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Rod Tait -- 6/11/2017, 10:33 am
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bsoderholm -- 6/11/2017, 10:36 am
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Philip Freeman -- 6/11/2017, 2:26 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/11/2017, 3:15 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/11/2017, 3:17 pm
Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
Philip Freeman -- 6/11/2017, 3:46 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/11/2017, 4:39 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 6/11/2017, 6:04 pm
Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
Philip Freeman -- 6/11/2017, 8:06 pm
Re: Strip: Joining Deck to Hull
John Messinger -- 6/13/2017, 5:37 pm