Thursday, May 26, 2011
Glass work complete!!
All the loose ends are finally tied up on the back decks glass wise. With only gelcoat remaining. It kind of snuck up on me. Yesterday I was up early grinding old gelcoat and grime from around where all the fill (water, and fuel, x2 apiece) covers would go. And chamfering all the 90 degree edge lips of the hatch that we had left and accommodated thinking the aluminum hatch coming configuration would like right angles. Much to Glass's chagrin because it hates sharp corners. After all that, we neglected to remember to account for the welds within the corners making rounded corners necessary. Doh! I'm so tired of being retarded. Never right the first time. So in an early morning inferno of glass dust, followed by a rally session of fast kickin duraglass we pounded out all the remaining obstacles. Not without some of my "special" glasswork. To me glass has become an art form. Though an unorthodox one, I'm told I do it unorthodoxly. 120 Gallons of resin later, 540 lbs of various fiberglass putties, 1/3 of a mile of cloth and about 2000 square feet of foam and nidacore lamination.. Lets get weird. And after that day it hit me. We were finally done glassin the decks. The final day was the pinnacle of getting experimental with creating weird shapes. I had dreaded making patterns for such oddities, and in the end I just siped some nidacore making it bend like orgami hot gluing it in the desired shape, filling all the heinous gaps with foam scraps held by hot glue and repeatedly pumped with duraglass. Till it could be a glassable work of art. And like that the back decks were done.
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