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Old 01-27-2010, 12:20 AM   #38 (permalink)
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You're most welcome. I've also been called a grammar fascist, but I'm mostly interested in technical clarity, since we do so much education here.

Plywood glue is usually quite waterproof, although cheap door skins are sometimes flawed in several ways. In boat building, it is sometimes given a mild compound curve and called "tortured Plywood" but those techniques don't work for this shape. Any wooden construction can be made stable and waterproof with a good coat of epoxy. The popular WEST brand is an acronym for Wood Encapsulation Stabilization Treatment, or something similar.
If you wanted a fiberglass shell, one easy way is to cover frames like those with C-flex, a fiberglass cloth with resin-cured thin fiberglass rods woven in in one direction. The frames can be retained as structure or just used as a mold.
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