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There is no need to worry about making a daggerboard, centreboard, or rudder out of solid wood. Visit your nearest sailing facility and look at all the centreboards, daggerboards, and rudders made of solid wood. The fact that your board is glued up means it will not warp. You can look at the end grain to see which way the two pieces are oriented. Put a couple coats of polyurethane varnish on it and refinish it every few years. I've never put epoxy resin on oak but peope who have say it's only necessary to sand the surface of teh wood to roughen it up a bit. Oak contains tannin, and acid, and acids dilute epoxy rdeucing its bonding strength. One way to clean up epoxy resin that has not cured is to use vinegar, lemon juice, or some other mild acid. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-FreeNet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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