Re: Fillers?

["Greg Ryan" <gregoryrryan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert is right, this is the artistic part of building a beautiful boat. I 
also found some great filler at Home Depot. Comes in small pots about 1 1/2 
inch diam from Minwax. Its called Wood Putty and comes in several colors and 
because of the small pot size is fairly cheap.  I bought a wide variety of 
colors from white to ebony with wallnut, cherry and natural pine very 
usefull for me. The colors can be mixed to get very close to the color you 
are after. I use a painters pallet from the kids painting set to arange and 
mix the colors to match the wood color for holes patch. This stuff is water 
based, dries quickly but doesnt ever go really hard,  but under the Fglass 
its just the ticket. Practice on a bit wood of similar color to the 
predominant color strips on your boat, find the batch that matches it well 
from under an epoxy coat. You can keep using the mixed "color matched" batch 
for a week/few days if you just cover with glad wrap and sling it in the 
fridge. Depends on how many holes you have to fill,  I'm trying not to have 
that many.

Greg
SwiftSolo --Rose


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Harper" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <warren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'Rob DesMarais, D.C.'" <drrld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:34 AM
Subject: RE: Fillers?


> One other note of fillers. If you save some of the find sanding dust while
> you are sanding the cedar, you can mix some of the sanding dust and filler
> to get a color that is closer to the color of the wood and will hide in
> places you can see it. If you use the sanding dust straight, it will be 
> very
> dark. You get to play painter while mixing because the color of the wood
> varies and matching the color is part of the "art" of building boats.

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