your carbon fibre guitar comes to mind , as well as your motorbike fairings and other such stuff you do , there in Colorado [especially the winter stuff …hint , hint !]
My first non-surf use of my “skills” was when, as a teenager, I repaired a crack in the kitchen freezer with glass and epoxy. At work, I’ve used glass and epoxy to reinforce 3D-printed prototypes. I made a plug, then a mold that was to be used for potting high-voltage circuit boards. Lots of other little things, no pictures. But, like many on here, I love the cross-pollination of ideas and processes that I’ve picked up in my extra-curricular activities.
Thanks to everyone here for the knowlege you’ve shared.
15’ 1986 scooter. Total flats fishing machine. Took the deck off, wooden stringers and transom out and replaced with fiberglass a-frame stringers, nida core deck and high density foam on the transom. Fun project, but doubt I’ll do another!
I met a guy making props and shapes for movie sets and he didn’t know how to copy pieces so I’m vacbagging replicas. So many people have great skills but there’s always something else to learn.
As I make more I will use them to vacbag even more, I’ll have to split the hose to do 4 or 6 at one time.
Every thing crabon on the first car was done by me. CAD designed it, then made the plugs from foam and MDF, made the mould then the final Prepreg carbon / Ali honeycomb chassis. I won some composites award in Detroit for it, cant remeber what it was called. came 2nd in the wold champs.
Didnt design the second one, but did all the composites work. This won the world champs.
I loved doing the carbon airbox. took me like 3 days to get the deep wet clear coat finish! oh so much clear coat!
Yeah Uni was fun!
Oh also shaped some lightweight longboard skateboards and heaps of yacht parts too.
As for glassing, ive done yachts, wind turbine blades, race car parts, carbon tube and a tonne more, even some military stuff in kevlar with ceramic tiles on it.
