I had ugly scarfs, so I came up with a paint design around the cockpit that covered the offending area. My brother did a different design and tied it into a smaller design on the bow and stern to cover a mark like yours. They look really nice. I recommend painting after epoxy and a layer or two of varnish - the paint may not stick as well (scuff the varnish under your paent pattern first), but you can sand off the paint easily that way if you don't like it. I will try to get pictures on file and email to you within a couple weeks.

Jim

: Darn... Building my Pygmy Arctic Tern has been going pretty well until last
: night. While sanding the excess epoxy/wood flour on the deck joints, I
: sanded through the outer layer of veneer on one of the joints. The middle
: layer of the three-layer mahogany plywood is CLOSE to the same color as
: the outer layer, but it looks like there is a very dark glue between the
: layers. This creates a really noticable line where I've sanded through.
: It's not a BIG deal (the area is on the stern end of the deck and is about
: an inch and a half long... maybe 1/4 inch wide - with a 16th inch dark
: glue line and 3/16ths middle ply), but I'm wondering if I can
: "mask" the dark area somehow (???).

: I was thinking maybe a beige paint could be dabbed on the dark line but I'm
: not sure if the epoxy saturation coat would have a problem with it (and
: then, of course, the fiberglass layer on top of that). What kind of paint
: might work? Any ideas... opinions... maybe I should just consider it a
: "beauty mark", but it's really bugging me.

: - Keith