OK, Here is how I get some glass to fill in the crack when I glass a fish. If anyone has a better idea, I’d love to improve my glassing. But just starting the conversation here.
Cut an extra piece of cloth as shown on the right.
Insert it under the glass as shown and while holding it in place, distort the glass so that it is pulled back to the crack and in the crack slot. (I’m just making up these names. What do you call them?)
Then laminate the board. I’ve done this several ways, but this seems to work best, gets glass in the crack, and stays in place while I laminate.
I pretty much do it the same way. But, I leave a little G string to wrap up in the but-crack. I’m not kidding and I don’t think it’s better. I just think it’s funny. I use a couple pieces of rectangular glass to cover the exposed foam. Mike
Dab a little resin in the crack and along the rail leading into the crack before starting your lam. This will hold any extra piece in place during the lamination
I always have 2 layers on top.. I cut the bottom layer on each side of the crack. The top layer I cut right up the crack.. next attach tramp stamp and smack it around a bit, then you should be good to go
oh yeah this method only works if the bottom layer isnt hanging past the rail, but right along the edge. the it kind of just lays right in there.
Ive done it with the extra piece too. but I like this method better.
Another way that works for me, but only for clear lams, is a triangle of cloth set in the crack, pointing upward. Lay that in first, wet it down, then your deck layer over that, with the normal relief cut.
Don’t know if this helps but I fill cracks by bunching/warping the cloth and only slicing the backside where corners/cracks/curves open up and unwarping the cloth runs out out of the ability open up again. When molding in a press (vacuum/solid) this is not that much of a deal because the cloth gets jammed.
Does it screw the lay line?
Yes it does.
If the lay line is important to you then this is not the answer but dats da way I do it.
I radius the transition between deck and rail in the crack so that there is no actual split on the deck side, just the swallow tail at the bottom itself. But then again that’s not a proper crack as such.
