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> I've just about finished stripping a Great Auk and will be glassing soon.
> I left the cove and bead on the strips at the shear. Will this cause a
> problem when I glass the two halves? I'm thinking if I glass all the way
> to that strip the cove and the bead will get covered with resin.
Gary, I say keep the bead and cove. That's what I did on my Expedition Single. Why shave off what would become a nice mechanical joint. The bead and cove helps in aligning the deck to hull, and provides more surface area for gluing. Cleaning the bead and cove is a piece of cake if you do it before the epoxy cures. I let my cloth extend beyond the edge of the shear strip 1 inch or so. Most excess resin was stopped, or soaked in by that extra inch. Very, VERY little resin ended up on/in the bead/cove, to my surprise. Post-cure slop was removed from the bead with a hand plane, from the cove with a small round file.
Seems that many builders feel the bead and cove should be removed. I can't figure out why.
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