My friend gave me a piece of material that might have possibilities for making
composit compund curve bodies . People who work with composits may be familiar
with this 3/16" thick plastic honeycomb stuff with a thin layer of woven
fabric bonded to each side . It's intended to be the core of a panel with a
layer of carbon or glass epoxied to each side which makes it very stiff . If
it was stapled to a buck I think it's stiff enough to make a continious 2 or 3
dimentional shape . With your fingers it will bend to a 4" radius and with the
same force will make a mild compound bent of maybe 2 or 3 ft radius . I
picture stapeling this over a buck and laying up the outside and then removing
it and laying up the inside . Don't see how this would be good for a nose of a
body with tighter compound curvs . It would need a coat of spray on filler
over the layup and to be sanded to get rid of the slight hex patern . Does
Jack or anybody have any any comments on the amount of labor or reduced need
for skill for this method compared to the foam and drywall mud method .
John Burk joyseydevil@comcast.net
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