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Re: Strip: fiberglassing and varnish
By:Farback
Date: 4/5/2010, 11:07 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: fiberglassing and varnish (Bill Hamm)

: Btw I'd highly recommend Nick's books for answering most of these
: questions.

: I've btw, played with lots of varnishes, now I use Zspar Captain's
: Varnish, easy to apply, works well with epoxy (not all varnish
: does) and dries fairly quickly. I only wet sand varnish, get too
: deep of scratches dry sanding it that are difficult to fix on
: the following coats. A perfect varnish job can well be 15 or 20
: coats, but that's getting silly, you'll cause more damage the
: first time you paddle it to make that worthwhile. 4 or 5 coats
: will usually result in a nearly perfect surface.
: (btw, when you do varnishing for a living, sometimes the clients
: require perfect varnish )

: Bill H.

Bill

Do you wear a mask when you varnish?

Kirk

Messages In This Thread

Strip: fiberglassing and varnish
victor druten -- 4/4/2010, 8:46 pm
Re: Strip: fiberglassing and varnish
Etienne Muller - Ireland -- 4/5/2010, 11:45 am
Re: Strip: fiberglassing and varnish
Bill Hamm -- 4/5/2010, 1:51 am
Re: Strip: fiberglassing and varnish
Farback -- 4/5/2010, 11:07 am
Re: Strip: fiberglassing and varnish
Bill Hamm -- 4/6/2010, 12:41 am
Re: Strip: fiberglassing and varnish
Bill Hamm -- 4/5/2010, 1:46 am