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Re: Skin-on-Frame: What kind of skin treatment is
By:Charlie
Date: 9/23/2007, 12:44 pm

Those picture galleries would be worth a whole lot more if the posters would go one step further and include enough of a caption to help the viewer know what the importance of the picture is.

: I have been all over the web researching different methods of SOF building
: before I start building my first boat. Most people it seems skin their
: boats with either cotton duck or nylon and treat with paint or urethane
: type stuff. I am curious what was used on these boats:
: http://www.ancestralways.net/gallery/index.php?level=album&id=6&page=12

: They seem to have been built in a very traditional manner, and I am wondering
: it this is some natural dye that they are using or what it is. Does anyone
: know?

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: What kind of skin treatment is this? *LINK*
Erin Hurst -- 9/23/2007, 12:48 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: What kind of skin treatment is *LINK*
Dave Isbell -- 9/25/2007, 1:44 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: What kind of skin treatment is
Erin Hurst -- 9/25/2007, 11:56 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: What kind of skin treatment is
Dave Isbell -- 9/26/2007, 10:52 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: What kind of skin treatment is *LINK*
Bob Deutsch -- 9/24/2007, 7:35 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: What kind of skin treatment is
Kris Buttermore -- 9/24/2007, 10:40 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: What kind of skin treatment is
Erin Hurst -- 9/25/2007, 11:58 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: What kind of skin treatment is
Charlie -- 9/23/2007, 12:44 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: What kind of skin treatment is
Brian Nystrom -- 9/23/2007, 8:38 am