JEM Watercraft

The other day when I was working on the wadefish and starting to tack weld the cockpit, I came in out of the heat for a break and Martha Stewart was on the tv. She was using a pastry bag to make cookies or something, and it gave me an Idea. I could use a similar method to apply a nice even bead of putty.

First take a plastic bag and cut a corner out(not too big or your bead will be huge.

Then turn the bag halfway inside out.


Fill the corner with the epoxy/woodflour mix.

Then bunch up the rest of the bag around the putty and squeeze it out like a tube of toothpaste.


This method is very neat and doesn't leave the dark marks all over your wood.

Thanks Martha!

I meant to post under my builder log

Works for Fillets too, but use a "Freezer" bag. The sandwhich and Storage bags will split seems. Kind of messy when that happens...

Jerry

If you run some tape along the outside of the seam ( on both sides of the seam leaving the area free that you want the fillet on ) then do the fillet , smooth it out and when tacky pull the tape.... Nice crisp edges and a uniform size ( width) to the fillet.

"O" .. Also epoxy saturate the seam and the area the tape will be stuck to , let it set up ( then lightly sand it to get rid of the whiskers) before you put the tape down , this way the tape has something to stick to and when you pull it and you will not take any wood with the tape.

Chuck.