Hi Jim Dodd & Bear Lee alive,Thanks for your Kind comments and a Happy New Year to all.
Yesterday I got over to the workshop and gave the wannigan its fill coat on the outside.I began by scraping the corners to tidy them up and then giving it a sand to provide a key for the next coat.
After scraping the runs and uneven bits around the corners I got the sander out and sanded the sides first.
The excess cloth was cut off the edges.
Then I washed it off all over with a wet and dry sanding block and left it on the bench to dry with the fan heater drying it out whilst I warmed up the resin and the surrounding workshop.
After a coffee break things were warm enough to proceed with a brushed on fill coat.
After cleaning brushes I left it all alone to set undisturbed and then returned this morning.
I began by planing off the inside edge where I had glued on the lip pieces.
This plane is one of my favourite tools which I bought new in 1981 when I was on a pattern making course.In those days they made planes properly and it has a good weight to it and is far better finished (with wooden handles) than my jack plane that I bought just a few years later in 1987 which I find lighter although it is a bigger tool and it just isn't finished as nicely with plastic handles!
Anyway I digress and next came a little sanding of the inside and no matter how much of this you do there aways seems to be some uneven-ness but at the end of the day I say to myself it is a box for storing goodies and I'm sure they won't mind if it is a little uneven in places.
I hoovered off the dust.
Then I decided the internal corners would need some special treatment to allow the cloth to sit in them nicely.I mixed up a squirt of resin with some micro fibres and then put it into the corners using a specially made stick.
This seems quite tricky to begin with but once I dribbled some into the corner it was soon struck off with the stick leaving a bit of excess either side of the corner.
I then went round carefully scooping up the excess with the corner of my squeegy leaving the fillet in place undisturbed.
I left the heater warming the inside of the box and curing the fillets whilst
I had a coffee and then I turned the box over and cut out a piece of cloth using the outside as a guide.
The cloth was carefully lowered into place.
and then brushed out flat.
You can see from the edges that a few cuts will need to be made to get the cloth so lay flat.I made them once it was stuck during the wet out.
About an hour later I had completed the wet out.I found the brush useful in a stippling motion to get it into the corners whilst the flat areas were done with the squeegy and any bubbles were rolled over with my grooved metal roller.
I tidied up and cleaned my brush before checking it over once again and then leaving it to set.The corners will be cleaned up and cloth added to the ends once it has set and at that stage I should also be able to give it a fill coat.
Cheers
Alick
