Fiberglassing Basics [E62]

Just what I needed to continue building my spaceship

As an Aerospace Engineer I want to say it’s awesome that you are so willing to share your experience and knowledge with others. Knowledge should be shared!!!! Thank you both!

I've been waiting for this one for a while. I've been pretty curious how you keep from having to throw a ton of stuff out after every glass job. This is a super good tutorial; Thank you!

Brilliant vlog, thank you so much. As a novice user I've learned a great deal

Matt you're a wealth of knowledge. I love these videos, you teach so well with such a calm tone and ease of movement. Thank you so much for taking the time out to do this, if you're like me you like to get on and be doing things;) Anyhow sending positive energy to you both from the Emerald Isle....Neil.

Matt love this video, I keep it in my playlist I am going to do some fibreglass work on my boat sealing up deck holes and re bedding my deck hardware had to watch again, for tips and tricks, thanks a lot for making these types of videos it really helps us out. 😊

As Doug says below, fantastic tutorial..... and I was grateful for a glimpse in the bucket haha all the best for 2023 from down under, looking forward to seeing the project develop.

I've been doing glass work for decades and I'm still picking up tips. Awesome video

Thanks for the knowledge Matt, your Craftsmanship is top notch✌️

Thank you for taking the time to go over this for us. And as usual a nice femenine touch at the end, always on point, thanks for the words of encouragement.

Awesome stuff! I've watched every video and having a few side videos like this is totally amazing! Please keep doing them :) Thanks so much!!

Great job, as a fellow tinkerer I've done my fair share of glass. I'd only add to new folks, there are charts for recommended amounts of resin to glass ratios if your guestimating amounts to mix per square inch.

Nice video, and well explained ! When doing epoxy work, I use polyurtehan medical gloves, and when it gets complicated, like needing to get a couple of layers of glass in a difficult place, I always wear two or even three gloves , one over the other. So when I need to have clean hands, for example when I have to quickly cut a new piece of carbon or glass, I simply get rid of the top layer of gloves. It is also nearly impossible to quickly get fresh gloves over sweaty wet hands, over a set of gloves, no problem...I always use a very precise digital scale to get my epoxy mix and put the scale in a ziplock bag to keep it clean. Sometimes it is also very nice to put some veryfluid glass bubble filler epoxy over half cured glass and only then apply the peelply, roll it firmly in. This fills the weave with the glass bubble filler and reduces sanding a lot.. Cheers Matthias

The videos of just the boat project have been extremely helpful for my own boat project. Thank you!

Great to hear you explain it in detail. I kinda wish I had something I need to fiberglass after watching that!

Another great video. I really like your idea for getting the thickened epoxy into the freezer bag. We will be using that idea next time on our project. Thank you for sharing.

Excellent lesson. I helped my dad strip fiberglass and reapply on a Chris Craft boat in 1965....I still itch from that ordeal.

Thanks, Lots of good info. One of my favourite tools is the Olfa rotary knives. Fast for cutting out shapes. For cutting non standard tape widths in woven glass I pull out a strand of glass which leaves a line in the cloth easy to follow with the rotary knife. An old piece of plexiglass makes a good cutting board. A lot faster than scissors.

Great video. Good clear explanation and presentation of examples.

Have not done as much with Fiberglas as you. You did a great gob of introducing any hobbyist how to get stated.. I have always used the west system but is just because that is where I started. Use the special hardener so that it does not yellow or have the oxygen inhibited layer. Good job!!