> This weekend, I tackled my first Glassing experience by Glassing the
> exterior hull. During wet out of the glass, I definitely preferred using a
> squeegee for applying the epoxy and only switched to a chip brush at the
> Bow and Stern where the surface is vertical. What I am not so settled on
> though is what to use to apply the epoxy for filling the weave. I tried to
> use a squeegee and although is spread the epoxy quickly, I was not
> confident of spreading out a uniform thickness of epoxy especially over
> the "bumps" (cloth edge fraying of 2nd cloth layer) so for the
> next coat of epoxy I switched to a roller followed by tipping off the
> bubbles with a foam brush. I worked the saturated roller quickly over the
> entire kayak before the epoxy in the roller started to gel up (Thanks Ross
> for that tip!) and that seemed to get me the best results in a very short
> amount of time. Also, I have a dumb question about using the squeegee to
> remove the excess epoxy. Is this only done when you initially wet out the
> cloth? I tried doing this one of the follow on epoxy coats but it did not
> seem to be effective except to help spread the epoxy coat more evenly.

> Thanks,

> Randy

Foam rollers followed by the foam brush is what Pygmy recomends, and it worked fine for me.

Mike Hanks