Recent content by Travis Grauel

Wow thanks for the awesome feedback! The pics and video do help..I am making a longboard at the moment and will fill and try a start at 80 grit if that doesn’t work I’ll go down to 40... once it’s pretty smooth should I skim some thickened epoxy on the surface and sand that down with 120? I...

Lumps are probably inches apart scattered pretty randomly across the boat the thicker epoxy is maybe a 16” thick but total epoxy probably closer the an 1/8” over the glass....i think I’m going to try and spray paint on hull and try to knock down most of the high stuff... if I get it close to...

Thanks a ton ...would grey primer be no good if I was going to be putting multiple layers of whiteish color?

I would say from high to low spot at the biggest would probably be about an 1/8”. Would 2 or 3 thin hot coats of epoxy help smooth it out or would it just follow the imperfect surface? I’ve already used 6 gallons of epoxy up to this point on the hull alone...thanks!

So I’m currently to the point of fiberglass and epoxying my boat...my current issue is how to Acheive a smoothish finish? I’ve put 1 layers of 7018 biaxal cloth and 2 separate coats of epoxy and have tons of rather large dips and belly’s in the epoxy even though my layup was bubble free? I...

Just 1 layer not counting joints?

Just 60 year old prints drawn on a peice of plywood my great grandfather drew them

Thanks for the advice...the transom is 3 layers of 1/2 epoxied 3 times each and then laminated together and epoxied 2 more times fastened to the last team of the boat...the panels were TERRIBLE to bend but did require some persuadeing 2 guys a lot of screws and a lot of clamps but was manageable...

Thanks so I think dry bilge is what I’m shooting for at this point what fiberglass do you recommend for entire outside? Marine grade plywood I used is definitely not top of the line pretty far from it actually...

I got ya so you also think a dry bilge is the way to go?

Seems have scab backer and glued and screws and will be taped

Awesome appreciate it!