Those that have taken part the past couple weeks can tell you of the intense work going on down in the labs.
It sure as hell feels good to drive a nail again. - Ali Majd
He about perfectly summed up how I feel about the last few weeks of hands-on mold casting. However my hesitance to update some specifics of it comes in with the fact that we have a secret weapon. I will not reveal it's identity online, but a trip to the lab could lead to me bragging about it.
Here's Pat and Corey cutting up some chopped fiberglass to use in the mold.
We laid down sheets of it within our secret mold material and then paper-mache style glued on the fiberglass sheets. We take fume safety seriously.
Here's Pat and I mixing up some resin. Pat has become the master chef of laminating resin cooking.
This is our male mold all glass in and with some temporary cross bracing so it dried in the perfect shape of the female foam mold. Seeing as how the foam mold cost thousands, we hope to keep it in perfect shape for future canoe molds. Not to say our cast fiberglass molds won't stand the test of time.
Here I am readying the drill for some quick diaphragm installation prior to glassing them over.
Here's the test fit, got some warped beams in there but that's half the battle with using excess wood from years past.
Aga glassing the ribs over with our woven fiberglass. I think he won MVP that night for most fiberglass strips laid in an hour.
Here's Ed, our carpentry mastermind laying down some good tack for the structural beams to stick in for the while.
Here's the Monday night group wrapping up a few good hours work.If you're wondering as to the date on the photos, it's wrong. Most of these are from the past 2 weeks, I haven't rigged up Nick's old camera correctly yet.
Next post, I'll have the link up for our recruitment video. It may not actually recruit anyone, but at least its awesome and hilarious. I'd like to thank Marie for taking so many of these pictures, and Nick for donating a camera.
Greg
