{"id":1315,"date":"2010-04-21T22:12:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T02:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:21","slug":"eva-too-fillin-the-weave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/eva-too-fillin-the-weave\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Too – Fillin’ the Weave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"photo<\/a>So, people really build one of these in a week? After the fiberglass is applied, several thin coats of epoxy are rolled on to “fill the weave” of the cloth. I guess one could roll on a new coat every 8 hours and get it done in a day, but my days don’t work out that neatly. Instead, I get one, maybe two coats a day and work on another project (to be revealed soon) while epoxy cures. The idea is to build thin coats, to keep a 40 pound boat from weighing 72 pounds. Stop when the weave is filled. You know, it’s really hard to show the filled \/ not-filled condition in a photograph.<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>If you ever approach one of these stitch-n-glue projects, be prepared to buy supplies in bulk. I have a couple of really nice badger hair paint brushes that will last a lifetime of painting. Epoxy’s different. Precious few of the supplies can be cleaned and reused. Get a full box of chip brushes, a dozen or so of those yellow spatulas (they can be easily cut to smaller sizes), 8 or 10 rollers which get cut in half for small quarter use, and LOTS of nitrile or latex gloves.<\/p>\n

About midway through coating the hull, I reached the half way point in my epoxy supply, which I think is close to plan for a not-too-heavy boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, people really build one of these in a week? After the fiberglass is applied, several thin coats of epoxy are rolled on to “fill the weave” of the cloth. I guess one could roll on a new coat every 8 hours and get it done in a day, but my days don’t work out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boatbuilding","7":"category-eva-too","8":"category-mill-creek-13","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8194,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/8194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}