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Strip: Advice on glassing the hull
By:Todd O
Date: 1/6/2011, 10:34 pm

I'm finally ready to glass the hull on my kayak, but have a quick question. I was planning on putting a seal coat of epoxy on the bare wood prior to glassing to avoid the wood soaking up too much resin during wet out of the glass. For this method, do you need to let the seal coat completely cure and sand prior to glassing? I've never done this before, but it seems if I tried to lay the glass after the seal coat is tacky, it wouldn't work so well to get it spread out nice and flat. Any advice?

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Strip: Advice on glassing the hull
Todd O -- 1/6/2011, 10:34 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/6/2011, 11:53 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/7/2011, 12:52 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 1/7/2011, 6:00 am
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Al Edie -- 1/7/2011, 1:17 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/7/2011, 2:21 pm
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Al Edie -- 1/7/2011, 1:21 pm
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Todd O -- 1/7/2011, 2:53 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/7/2011, 3:42 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/7/2011, 4:55 pm
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Todd O -- 1/8/2011, 3:16 pm