I just have to say it, "We're going to need clamps. Lots of clamps...."

Lots and lots of relatively inexpensive C-clamps is de-rigueur. I also really
like these "Irwin quick-grip" clamps I have been buying at the local Home
Despot. They are quick and simple to set and adjust, and have plastic
padded clamping surfaces to which epoxy will not stick, and that don't leave
marks on the wood. So it isn't necessary to fool around with little taped up
pieces of scrap wood to protect the clampees from clamping dents.

I still don't entirely trust myself with a ROS, especially with coarse grade
paper. Cuts way too fast for me. I have found that a fairing board, with good
quality paper, 3m stikit paper has worked really well for me, is almost as
fast and much easier to monitor and control. It takes a little while to get
a good idea of what you are seeing while you are sanding glass and epoxy and
80 grit on an ROS can cut right through the cloth very quickly. Don't ask me
how I learned this! Nick Schade's technique of folding a regular piece of
sandpaper in half with a little contact cement to hold it together works well
too. A little stikit sandpaper on a foam block is also good.

Clamps and sandpaper, ... do those qualify as "tools" ? Anyway, I may have
spent as much on those as anything else:)

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Ogata (eric)