A Craftsman is not one who never makes a mistake...but one who has the skill and the diligence to correct the problem. Thank you Nick for sharing reality with us and how you work through these issues!!!
Hi Nick, Thank you for showing your solutions to the issues that come up during your build that is almost even more valuable then the build it self, but thank you for showing the necessary sequence of steps of the build in your videos, Great Work and super informative Thank You!
Actually this was a very good video full of useful tips for fixing the problem areas. Boy, separating the hull and deck off the forms would have made me extremely nervous and I liked the quick solution of making intermediate forms to support both sides. Adding the alcohol based stain to the thickened epoxy was a nice touch. You are the “blend guru”.....it must surely feel good to be fiberglassing and strengthening the kayak at this point.
Beautiful kayak! Thanks for all the repair/fix details you are providing. Please provide the details on the weight and characteristics of the glass cloth you are using.
Alcohol is a solvent for epoxy, but that just means it thins it down a bit, but the epoxy chemistry still works. The alcohol does slow the cure, but the epoxy still does cure.
Nick, great fixes and nice attention to detail. It seems that when sawdust is mixed with epoxy the resulting putty is always darker that the wood the sawdust came from.Q: have you ever tried adding baking flour to the mix to lighten the putty to improve the match?
A Craftsman is not one who never makes a mistake...but one who has the skill and the diligence to correct the problem.
Thank you Nick for sharing reality with us and how you work through these issues!!!
Hi Nick, Thank you for showing your solutions to the issues that come up during your build that is almost even more valuable then the build it self, but thank you for showing the necessary sequence of steps of the build in your videos, Great Work and super informative Thank You!
Actually this was a very good video full of useful tips for fixing the problem areas. Boy, separating the hull and deck off the forms would have made me extremely nervous and I liked the quick solution of making intermediate forms to support both sides. Adding the alcohol based stain to the thickened epoxy was a nice touch. You are the “blend guru”.....it must surely feel good to be fiberglassing and strengthening the kayak at this point.
Beautiful kayak! Thanks for all the repair/fix details you are providing. Please provide the details on the weight and characteristics of the glass cloth you are using.
I have been enjoying the videos. I would have thought the alcohol in the stain would breakdown the epoxy. Not true?
Alcohol is a solvent for epoxy, but that just means it thins it down a bit, but the epoxy chemistry still works. The alcohol does slow the cure, but the epoxy still does cure.
Nick Schade got it. Thanks
What type of fibre glass do you use? Eglass or sglass and what weights?
The deck exterior will be E-Glass, the hull exterior will be S-Glass.
Nick, great fixes and nice attention to detail. It seems that when sawdust is mixed with epoxy the resulting putty is always darker that the wood the sawdust came from.Q: have you ever tried adding baking flour to the mix to lighten the putty to improve the match?
I have not used baking flour, but I have used colloidal silica. It does help, but it is still hard to get a real match.
why not wet the wood well past the blemish with alcohol and then use an alcohol wood dye to blend in color into the infinite wet edge.
hey you can send me the forms instead of chucking them out. :) hehe just a thought
:-)