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Re: Epoxy: Build with epoxy floor paint?
By:yellowbelly
Date: 3/13/2012, 6:39 pm
In Response To: Re: Epoxy: Build with epoxy floor paint? (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

: Boats have been made from paper saturated with shellac
: http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/04/s/excerpts/maib/17/index.htm
: so just about any resin-like material can be used with just
: about any "core/fabric". Paint, varnish, elmers glue
: combined with burlap, old bed sheets, or t-shirts could all make
: fun and interesting projects and successful boats.

: But you still have to do it right. Obviously, that guy didn't.

Interesting. Must admit I checked the date, not April 1st yet? Particularly when the article mentioned a '12' Bamegat sneakbox' but now I'm convinced. That's a lot of shellac, a great deal of insect secretion.
The failed canoe has the shell and the sealed fabric of a cedar canvas canoe but without the structure if ribs, gunwales and stems.
. . . Ben

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Epoxy: Build with epoxy floor paint?
yellowbelly -- 3/10/2012, 8:38 am
Re: Epoxy: Build with epoxy floor paint?
John Abercrombie -- 3/10/2012, 1:29 pm
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John Abercrombie -- 3/10/2012, 2:03 pm
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dave g -- 3/10/2012, 11:00 pm
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John Abercrombie -- 3/11/2012, 1:49 am
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Etienne Muller -- 3/11/2012, 4:48 am
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Bob Johns -- 3/11/2012, 6:54 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 3/11/2012, 5:15 am
Does this guy...
Brian Nystrom -- 3/11/2012, 11:02 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/11/2012, 11:36 am
Re: Epoxy: Build with epoxy floor paint?
yellowbelly -- 3/11/2012, 1:22 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/12/2012, 3:11 am
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yellowbelly -- 3/12/2012, 9:10 am
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Charles Robinson -- 3/12/2012, 12:36 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/13/2012, 1:12 am
Re: Epoxy: Build with epoxy floor paint?
yellowbelly -- 3/13/2012, 6:54 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/13/2012, 1:14 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 3/12/2012, 8:01 pm
Re: Epoxy: Build with epoxy floor paint?
yellowbelly -- 3/13/2012, 6:39 pm