: hello everyone,
: the lamination of my cokpit coaming is going well. here is a marginally bad
: photo of it at an early stage. (i took this on monday) its friday and i'm
: almost done with bending the rim and the lip portion.
: two questions here: 1.my lip as it is right now has a overhang on 3/8" i
: want to have a walnut on the outside edge for cosmetic reasons. is
: 3/8" enough? or should i go with two more layers (5/8")so the
: walnut is to the outside?
: 2. should i use epoxy ? i noticed j. munf(r)oe used an "instant"
: glue. i've seen some stuff at the wood store cliaming to be instant with
: in 20 seconds. i'd could go into a laminating frenzy if its solid in 20
: seconds. its $6.and some change for a tiny bottle. could i use one bottle,
: tacking it into shape every few spots? or should i just stick with epoxy.
: just want a few opinions here, i'm not sure so i thought i'd ask....
: i hope all your projects are going smoothly,
: brett the hitman hart

Hi Bret,

I wish I was as far along as you are and building my combing. One caution about instant glue--super glue (cyanoacrylate). It's not always so instant. Where I use to work it was kept with dry ice in balk and we used it like white glue we had so much of it and we didn't worry about it's price. Sometimes it was instant and other times something could set for an hour and it still wouldn't be set. But the accelerater truly made it instant, every time. And when you are glueing something internal that you can't get the acc. sprayed on to, you super glue one surface and spray the other and when they they touch you have a couple of seconds to get it positioned right. So be careful. It's just another usefull tool amoung our many tools. Take care.

John