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Re: Strip: glassing the combing
By:Ken Sutherland
Date: 11/8/2003, 11:03 pm
In Response To: Strip: glassing the combing (c)

Chuck

If you use bias cut cloth it will conform quite nicely around the combing. You may be trying to make the cloth do too much at one time. Try going up and over the combing from one side, let that cure till the green state and then come up and over from the other side, rather than trying to go up, over and down in one shot. The frustration level will be lower doing it in 2 steps.

Keep smiling!

Ken

: i tried to glass the combing today and it didnt. nothing but air bubbles.
: i ended up pulling off the glass before it got too thick.
: wasted a bunch but there was no way i was leaving it on.

: please help.

: i need advice on NOT glassing the combing VS using multiple little pieces of
: glass.

: i thought mabey three layers, one up the inside and over the top.
: one up the underside, and one around the edge. but i cat forsee this method
: looking good.

: thnaks

Messages In This Thread

Strip: glassing the combing
c -- 11/8/2003, 2:26 pm
Re: Strip: glassing the combing
Ross Leidy -- 11/9/2003, 9:32 am
Re: Strip: glassing the combing
John Caldeira -- 11/9/2003, 8:20 am
Re: Strip: glassing the combing
Ken Sutherland -- 11/8/2003, 11:03 pm