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.

I fillet with AOL CD's.

Chuck

I have found that the ideal filleting tool is those little 6 oz beer
bottles. They have two diameters on each tool so you can use one end for
wide fillets and the other for narrow ones. They are use once and discard
so no clean up required and with the advantage that they work best empty.
:-)

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Chalatso" wrote in message
...
I fillet with AOL CD's.

Chuck

I have a selection of fillet sticks, generally cut from 1/4" ply and shaped
with the belt sander. Widths vary up to about 2-1/2". Also good for small
fillets are tongue depressors (the standard mixing stick) and the West
System plastic sticks. A putty knife picks up the squeeze-out
These get cleaned with the belt sander (except for the tongue depressors
which are tossed and the West System sticks which clean when bent).


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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.