Showing posts with label redtree fooler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label redtree fooler. Show all posts

Monday, November 26, 2018

Alcort Super Sailfish ZSA ZSA 26 Nov 18 Hull Fairing

26 Nov 18:

Picked up the sheet, halyard, bridle and bow line from West Marine, New England Sta-Set.


Trimmed the bottom panel edge with a flush cut metal blade on a DeWalt multi oscillating tool, used the metal blade because I needed the flush cut. Trimmed it as close as I dared then finished with a Stanley #5 jack plane and light passes with a Black and Decker belt sander. Sanded the fairing compound with 60 grit on a DeWalt random orbital sander


The rub strip is rotten in one spot so we will scarf in a new strip. We started by cutting out the bad part, eyeballed a 45 degree cut and made it with the oscillating tool. The bow is to the left, so we angled the forward end of the scarf so it would overlap aft....


...and angled the aft scarf so the rub strip will overlay it.


Peekaboo.


The wooden Sailfish and Sunfish have a stainless rub strip that wraps from the tab on the bow handle, around the stem and aft 18 inches. Speaking of bow handle, it is different than the fiberglass boats that do not have the tab, or the keel strip. We used the rub strip off of our wooden Sunfish CHIP as a guide, ZSA ZSA's was missing so we need to order a new piece of 1/2 inch, half oval strip. To fit the metal rub strip with used a 3/4 inch long handle hand chisel to bevel down the wooden keel strip, and cleaned that up with the jack plane.



Sanded with 60 grit and ready for primer.


We applied TotalBoat Topside Primer, rolled the bottom with a Mighty Mini Roller kit and brushed the sides with a Redtree Fooler chip brush.





Log of ZSA ZSA.

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Redtree Fooler Chip Brush

24 Mar 18:

If you have a unicorn bristle varnish brush that has been handed down through generations, carefully used, cleaned with vintage spirits and religiously stored under lock and key, then please read no further, as it might offend sensibility. I don't have one, probably because my Dad didn't varnish. I was watching a varnishing video made by everyone's buddy Louis Sauzeede, and he mentioned that he liked the double thick chip brush sold by Jamestown Distributors. I liked the ides of a thicker, disposable brush for our varnish jobs and if it is good enough for the fine work that Louis turns out then it is definitely good enough for me. I checked into it on the Jamestown Distributor website and they are made by Redtree, called The Fooler.


The Fooler is good enough to do the job and cheap enough to toss. $1.21 for the one inch and $1.57 for the 2 inch. The sticker on the brush packaging says it can be used for epoxy, resin, industrial coatings and bottom paint. No mention of varnish. In fact it says "Not for fine finishes." My finishes have been described as nice and beautiful, but never fine, so I think I'm okay to keep using them. I hope no one ever calls my hastily brushed varnish jobs fine, because then I'd feel obligated to get a $27 Italian brush to justify the compliment, and keep it wrapped up in the shop in a 20,000 thread count bamboo robe. Until then I'll keep buying Foolers, they felt nice in the hand and there were enough bristles to hold the varnish and keep it flowing evenly onto the work surface.




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