Building the 23' V-Bottom Skiff - Episode 17: Fairing the hull 

I always loved stepping up in knife sizes when spreading any kind of mud or compound over any surface. Drywall mud, spackle, plaster, bondo, leveling compound, anything to smooth [fair] a surface. The wider a knife/ spreading tool, the less time you end up spending with a long-board; sanding.

Right? Some of us even have a budget so tight we have to scrounge to get that next pack of disks for the yard sale purchased random orbit sander we found that doesn't even have the vacuum attachment piece.

yeah he is. It's like hearing yoda talk. The man knows his stuff!

I would think about short bristles around the edge instead of taking the plastic all the way to the surface, but yeah, great surround for the sander. Surely anyone with a 3-D printer could come up with a similar item.

That design is extremely common on CNC routers, it's not really a new thing.

@@Tonnsfabrication True. But I haven't seen that system used in this type of application. Would be nice to have it commercially made and sold at the local hardware store.

For pizza, I don't really care for a thin crust, if I wanted toppings on a cracker, I'd get crackers and put toppings on them. But for a boat? Hell yeah, keep her light. If someone ends up buying her for the purposes of a larger boat tender [pick-up truck/boat for going to shore] light & stable, is always a great idea. Not every 28 footer and up has davits and many have to bring the tender onboard or tow it behind, so light is a major plus.

Yellow and blue... end up green.

Not as good and twenty times the cost.

maybe you haven't used a festool sander attached to a CT collector, because the benefits of sanding without airborne dust do justify the high tooling cost

Since you know he doesn't care about safety. but a Festool as a HEPA filter and is approved for fiberglass sanding and grinding. if you get fiberglass in your lungs it's glass and will shred your lungs out. I worked around fiberglass for over 45 years. I'm sure totalboat or Jamestown distributor would tell you the same

Yeah, if you can afford a festool set up, they are worth it, every penny. But there are a lot of us out here doing woodwork and even working with fiberglass that can not swing that price tag. The cost of the festool ROS and dust collector is several months, or more, worth of supplys for our hobbies. Personally, I haven't spent those price tags on my hobbies in the last few years. I scavenge my woods and only buy sand paper and finishes. I resharpen all my own tools, mostly hand tools. Diamond cards are great for sharpening circular saw blades for the skill saw, table saw, and miter saw as needed, and diamond plates instead of wet stones do wonders for my hand planes and chisels. Triangular files for hand saws, etc. I save up to buy ROS disks in volume, but several thousand dollars for high end tools are way out of my budget. Heck most of my tools are swap meet, yard sale, or flea market finds, the ones not bought at Harbor Freight, that is. For a disabled guy with a fixed income under 10k annually, Festool is out of the question.

He builds wooden boats. The fiberglass is only a protective crust so the bottom can stand up to being beached repetitively over the years.

Wow, three posts. At least your feeding the algorithm, even if you're being negative in all three comments.

Because they support what he does, even if they have to wait a while for videos/content. This guy knows what he's doing.

Seems like you had a bad day...

@@tryphontournesol427 God doth not feedeth the trolls!

Keep in mind he's working on several projects at once. :D

Sure, but on the other hand a lot of technology uses nature inspired solutions such as imitating rough shark skin that actually has less drag than a smooth surface. You can only be sure by good comparable measurements, but I can see a glass structure possibly doing the same.

@@paterpeter1985 There are specific reasons shark skin denticles reduce drag and actually have propulsion qualities. The shark has a touch skin to protect it in a violent lifestyle made up of layered armor of denticles. The denticles have specific shape like microscopic keel structures on each one and other qualities. It an evolutionary strategy to allow good hydrodynamics within an otherwise rough armor. If the armor wasnt important they would just have super smooth skin like all fast fish. THe law of hydrodynamics are known....there is no truth to the idea that a rougher surface makes things go faster ....its just pure fiction. Fiberglass weave is a perpendicular matrix of fibers...that and any other imperfections creates more drag not less. There is a reason the shipping industry and sailing race industry spends $ on creating the finest surfaces possible

Exactly right.

I suspect that a small tupperware container would work without much modification.

Used the mesh to sand the floors on the entire downstairs of a house, and they do work better.

He hasn't started building Orca yet... to my knowledge. If he has, where are you seeing it?

A good filter bag does the job

I use a dust deputy, to shop vac with a 3 micron filter bag and a hepa filter. It's high performance on the cheap.