> Manufactured tape will have a ridge on the edge. It's not a big deal
> taping inside seams. You could cut your own tape and you could use shorter
> pieces without any strength loss. But you would also have yards and yards
> of fraying edges as you wet out the tape. I'm not sure that it wouldn't be
> more objectionable to have little clumps of glass fiber from the frayed
> edges than to have the ridges from the manufactured tape.

I actually like the frayed. I put the tape down first, and cover the hull with 4 oz cloth. The frayed edge even up the edge so that there is no pronounce line down the middle -- less sanding.