: I am
: going to put my fitting in the deck before I fiberglass so I can sand it
: off flush and have the walnut outer ring show.

John, can you say more about how you intend to do that? I'm a bit confused.

If they are in place when you go to glass the outside of the deck, then you might run into problems. First, you need to prevent covering the fitting with glass, otherwise, you won't be able to get the bungee under the brass ring - the fitting won't be accessible because it will be under a glass bubble. And, you'll get a lot of epoxy filling the bottom of the fitting.

On the other hand, it would be a huge pain to pre-cut the glass where the fittings will be... trying to align each glass cutout to be precisely to the edge of each fitting, but not over it, seems darn near impossibe since the glass will move as it gets wet out. You'll end up with lots of bubbles on the deck (I think).

I suppose you could glass over it, then carefully cut out the bubble that covers the fitting, but is that going to be easier than cutting the hole after glassing and then sanding flush with the deck?

Anyway, I'm not trying to be critical... just trying to learn a new method, but I'm a little confused by how you are intending to do it. I'd like to hear more about your plans for this.

Rick