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| krv3000:
not a problem if you used the fibre glass stuff for your boats I bet you used the pasts hardener in the clear casting kit its a liquid hardener and I ant had any problems with it the only thing you must do is ad the right amount of hardener to the resin as it gets hot in the Harding proses witch Leeds to cracking or try the clear two pack epoxy resin glue £1 a go at the £1 shop |
| awemawson:
In my experience fiberglass resins set slightly tacky unless the air is excluded from the outer surface. There are special wax additives you can buy, but some cling film stolen from the kitchen works just as well :lol: |
| chipenter:
Sanding sealer is just talk added to the varnish or lacker . |
| S. Heslop:
It's about time I did some actual woodwork. Rough cut the neck out. Got some actual use out of the spindle sander getting the inside corners up to the line. The back edge was brought down with the spokeshave to remove bulk and a sanding block to level it out. Was checking it against the template i'd made from mdf. I took some video of that but had the camera in the wrong setting, recording some seriously low resolution stuff. I'm glad I noticed before cutting the neck out proper at least. I was planning to sand the back with the belt sander but really it's not that accurate, the 'foot' of the sander is all kinds of crooked. Back of the headstock isn't levelled yet, I need to glue on the 'ears' that extend it sideways. I also routed the truss rod channel and got it about 0.8mm off from the center, which isn't great. Spent ages setting the thing up too. It's also a fairly loose slot but that shouldn't be a problem. |
| S. Heslop:
Glued the 'ears' on. I was planning to be fancy and match the grain direction, but I didn't have any bits long enough or tall enough to do that. So I glued some on with the grain running in another direction. It's probably gonna look like ass. So I figure some sort of face on the headstock would help make it look a little less ass. I dug through the box of wood and found two nice bits of matching burl. I've got a few fancy bits of wood but the guy that owned them before me had intended to use them as knife handles, evident from the outline traced, and had also drilled holes for the pins. Anyways the bits of burl weren't big enough so I split them again. The edges weren't flat and needed 'jointing' on the tablesaw. Then it was more wedges to glue it. Stuck to a bit of MDF to send through the drum sander. Once again, i'm getting alot of use out of this machine. After a bit more hand sanding I got it pretty smooth. I was thinking i'd probably drill the center out and set some sort of metal emblem into it, or a coin, but I think the pattern matches up so well it'd probably be a shame to do that. |
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