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Here's a handy tool that works.......for puttying inside corners prior
to overlapping with class fabric and resin. Go to K-mart, Wall-mart or Target and buy two cheap, meat cleaver-shaped Japanese vegetable chopping knives. Grind the front face of each knife so it forms a right angle with the sharp edge of the blade. Now grind a nice rounded fillet shape onto the front corner of each knife, so one knife has a slightly wider radius than the other. The small diameter knife is perfect for applying epoxy putty to an inside corner, making a nice smooth inside-corner-shape in the putty. But doing so makes two long beads of excess squeezeout putty next the nice round inside corner you wanted. The second knife, with the slightly wider radius on the front corner, is perfect for scraping off the squeezeout. Because the radius of the rounded corner is wider on knife number two, you don't even have to be careful. It won't screw up the inside bead you just made, no matter what. Works like a champ. You can fillet out the inside chine corner of a boat in a 2-3 minutes work, with near perfect results. |
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