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Re: Strip: Will you guys try this?
By:Jay Babina
Date: 5/15/2003, 10:44 am
In Response To: Strip: Raka 5oz wet out (Russ Chambers)

Email Newfound woodworks
boats@newfound.com
and ask for a sample of their 4 and 6 oz cloth.

do some wet out test.

Why screw around with that tight weave cloth after all that hard wordworking. Are you building a space shuttle that you are going to paint?
Newfound builds boats. The use cloth that works well for them. They do it every day. It's a more open weave and presents none of the problems that everyone's trying to figure out how to solve.

You might pay a tiny bit more but you wont be crying later.

I read all that glass strength stuff. interesting. I have built 5 strippers and none are comming apart. This is not an endorsement. It's more against tight weave cloth. I just know Newfound has a reliable product. You could certainsly get good wet-out cloth at a lot of places.

I like Larry at Raka and his epoxy. I don't like his glass or any tight weave stuff. Not for clear wet-out.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Raka 5oz wet out
Russ Chambers -- 5/14/2003, 11:16 am
Re: Strip: Raka 5oz wet out
Wes Tanaka -- 5/15/2003, 5:43 pm
Re: Strip: Will you guys try this?
Jay Babina -- 5/15/2003, 10:44 am
Re: Strip: Will you guys try this?
Russ Chambers -- 5/15/2003, 5:21 pm
Re: Strip: Raka 5oz wet out
Quay Marshall -- 5/15/2003, 10:27 am
Re: Strip: Raka 5oz wet out
Don Lucas -- 5/15/2003, 9:34 am
Re: Strip: Raka 5oz wet out
Sam McFadden -- 5/14/2003, 12:38 pm
Re: Strip: Raka 5oz wet out
Patsy -- 5/14/2003, 1:35 pm
Re: Strip: Raka 5oz wet out
Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/14/2003, 12:33 pm
Re: Strip: Raka 5oz wet out
Russ Chambers -- 5/14/2003, 2:32 pm
Re: Strip: Raka 5oz wet out
Rob P -- 5/15/2003, 9:00 am
Re: Strip: Raka 5oz wet out
Brian Ervin -- 5/14/2003, 12:04 pm