Four hours work in seven minutes

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Four hours work in seven minutes

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So the boats back in the workshop for a repaint, I've also decided to sheath the decks with epoxy and since I've been playing with a new stop motion app on the iPad I thought I'd record the process.



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very good, loved the vid,

could you detail how you did it & what materials you used in each stage, I would like to do something similar with the deck of
T 15, but epoxy is way over my head, we did not have epoxy in 1973... :grrr:

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Interesting video, but tell me, why did you decide to sheath the deck? Just curious to know. :?:
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Great video, I hope to be doing my deck soon but I wasn't planning on putting cloth on just a few coats of resin and then varnish. I'm sure you know this but just be very careful when your sanding if you go down to the cloth it will turn white and is very hard to fix.
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Cheers all! I wanted to sheath it mostly for durability, as I use it on the Thames alot we are forever in and out of locks and it gets bumped quite a bit (although my driving is improving :giggle: ). The wood also moved quite a lot last season bringing the grain out, what with moving between hot sun and colder weather etc so I wanted to try and settle that down a bit.

Yeah I'm planning to do several layers of just resin to build up the thickness before sanding :thumbsup: I would be pretty gutted if I ended up with a big white patch on the deck :grrr:

I've written about it in my blog if you want a bit more info. The only things I'd warn about is overworking the resin or doing it in a cold/damp place so you don't get the dreaded milky finish and end up ruining your precious woodwork :grrr: also what Sean-nós said about sanding back to the glass.

I've written about the process in my blog though if you'd like a bit more info on what I did: http://waterbuoy.wordpress.com/2012/10/ ... d-decks-2/
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