I’ve got two rolls of Clark-Schwebel Cloth, they are dated July 1986 ha!! Sealed in plastic the cloth is fine.
Style:1557, 38’’ Volan . Someone wrote 5.5oz Crowfoot on the box, this is satin weave?
Style: 1543, 38’’ Volan . This cloth was thinner and easier to wet out.
Super Green, looks very strong. Pretty keen to glass a board in it.
What would you use it for?
That’s cool. I’d make fins with it.
Dave
5.5 is commonly rounded up to 6 oz. 4 oz is 3.6, amd 8 oz is 7.5, and so on.
Use it where and however you’d use 6 oz.
Yep. 6oz.
Use as you would any Volan cloth.
The good old stuff is really green on the end of the roll.
Yep, can’t disagree with any of that.
I love using volan cloth as my tail and deck patches. I like that look.
Yeah Marsh, 3/4 deck patches and 4 oz over…
Yeah I’m pretty keen to glass a board with it…I’ll get back to you’sssssss
So I glassed the bottom of a board in this old satin weave volan. Cut lap and blue tint, the code of the cloth I used was 1543.
It was rediculously hard to wet out, I did half the board at a time and my hand was aching from violently massaging the resin in ha!
Would have been best to use UV resin, I ended up with a lot of air in the weave so I aborted using it on the deck. I’ll post this board when its done.
Want to try again with it on the deck to see if the satin weave is much stronger…Someone suggested at work the cloth may have been used for model air planes not surfboards?..
The cloth I used is a satin weave, its not E glass…very tight
(1) Should have done a test batch to see how it wets out. Then, you may have done a slower mix to allow saturation without pushing the squeegee too hard.
Try using 10 oz volan and you’ll understand. 6 oz is much easier.
(2) Volan finish is used for any number of applications. People used it on surfboards for many years.
I did a (small) test, its the stuff on the left in the first post at the start of the thread. It was hard to wet out that small piece so I glassed half the bottom of the board at a time. I aborted using it on the deck.
I’ve since determined the cloth is satin weave volan, not E glass, the weave is very tight.
It was a fun experiment, next time I’ll use UV resin and put some on the deck, see how strong it is.
Here’s me new single fin, yew!! Hand shaped 100%. 5’10’’ x 20’’ x 2 9/16’'.
Satin weave volan on the bottom, blue tint, bit of air, yellow filler coat on the bottom to try and hide the air, turned green and um…looks interesting.
Free hand poska pin line, sprayed with automotive acrylic with flattening base.
