Boat Building Forum

Find advice on all aspects of building your own kayak, canoe or any lightweight boats

Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
By:Ken F
Date: 1/9/2008, 8:10 am
In Response To: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy (Shaun)

: I have my strip built kayak all together now, applied the last of the
: fiberglass today on the outside seam. Now I need to sand everything smooth
: and feather the edges of the tape. I was using regular dry sandpaper, and
: it seems to get completely gunked up almost immediately. If I were to keep
: going like this I'd probably use 30 sheets. Is there a better method for
: sanding than this? If I wet sand with water will this eliminate or
: minimize the gunking up of sandpaper?

When I sanded my epoxy, I found that better sandpaper, though more expensive, clogged far less and ended up a better value. I used Norton sandpaper I bought at a Rockler store. The cheap stuff from the dollar store was worthless. Sanding to me is a fairly miserable job, the better sandpaper stays sharper and made the job go much more quickly.
Also, as mentioned, hit all the lumps and feather the seams with some sort of scraper while the epoxy is still rubbery, that saves much sanding later.

Ken F

Messages In This Thread

Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Shaun -- 1/8/2008, 8:05 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Shaun------WebKitFormBoundarydVVq+AkKF+NDgj9d -- 1/12/2008, 11:00 am
Ain't it lovely when you use the correct tool
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/12/2008, 4:21 pm
Could be blush------WebKitFormBoundary7KwtG0+1jge7
Jay Babina------WebKitFormBoundary7KwtG0+1jge7S+29 -- 1/10/2008, 7:52 am
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Aaron -- 1/9/2008, 9:08 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Shaun------WebKitFormBoundarydVVq+AkKF+NDgj9d -- 1/9/2008, 7:20 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Mike Savage -- 1/9/2008, 10:44 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/9/2008, 8:54 am
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Doug Smith -- 1/13/2008, 12:36 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/13/2008, 5:20 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Ken F -- 1/9/2008, 8:10 am
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Bill Hamm -- 1/13/2008, 1:39 am
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/8/2008, 9:49 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Dave Houser -- 1/8/2008, 9:47 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
fred Gasper -- 1/8/2008, 9:08 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy------WebKi
Shaun------WebKitFormBoundarydVVq+AkKF+NDgj9d -- 1/8/2008, 9:11 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Glen Smith -- 1/8/2008, 8:17 pm
Re: Epoxy: Sanding fiberglass and epoxy
Paula -- 1/14/2008, 12:25 pm
Oops, forgot to mention "Blush"
Glen Smith -- 1/8/2008, 8:30 pm