> I need to preface this response with the disclaimer that I've never tried
> this, but my son used it with pretty good results when we were putting
> epoxy onto the fabric a while back, and he got it from someone who worked
> with 'glass a lot.

> He split a four inch roller in half the long way and held one of the
> halves in a Visegrip pliers as a handle. Rather than rolling on the
> liquid, this thing acted and looked like a cross between a roller and a
> squeegee, although it did tend to start falling apart a lot earlier than
> you'd expect a roller to fail. Has anyone tried this technique? I'm
> thinking of trying it out.

> Jack Martin

This is my first experience with epoxy. As already mentioned above, I used a roller to apply the fill coat and then followed that up with a cheap sponge brush to get rid of those tiny little air bubbles and generally smooth out the fill coat....this seemed work well...definitely not perfect, but i figure the final sanding before the varnish goes on should smooth out the imperfections well enough to produce a suitable finsish..I figure if this thing turns out too nice I'll be sick when I hit the first rock..stump..or whatever else. additional note: The small flying critters have caused me much more distress than the "orange peel" effect....I made the mistake of leaving the door up and those bright lights on.... once ...imagine the horror at the sight of that first moth dancing around above all that wet epoxy. I'll probably have a few extra passengers (gnats) still embedded at launch time.