Spidey,

I have my Georgian Bay project with a first layer of glass on it. I found hand planing of the strips to be very difficult. Cedar is so soft and the strip grain changes direction with each piece so its impossible to not tear material due to planing the wrong direction. I did successfully use my hand held power planner on a very light setting. I brought most of it to fair with a delecate use of my belt sander followed by the random orbital for the 80 grit final once over.

I had lots of trouble with the satin glass 3.25 I read the recent thread by George and his advise helped. My problem was in getting small air pockets under the glass between it and the base coat of epoxy. I ground much of it out this morning and laid out another layer of glass this afternoon. Once you start grinding on it, everything turns to glass white and its very hard to locate the problem pockets. I have my fingers crossed but I sure wouldn't recommend to any beginners to use the satin glass. Its just too darn hard and fussy to work with. By the time I've laid all the layers I'll probably feel better about it but, "who needs the grief"? Its not like glassing is the funnest part of these projects.