Thread: Another Paulownia CF stock build

Originally Posted by chainsaw

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Paulownia from Graham Smith info@paulownianz.co.nz

First one I built I made the mistake of not thinning it down enough thru the wrist area. This one worked out much better , the epoxy & CF adds about 1-2mm, but can be more in places if the CF cloth does not bind down tightly to the base epoxy when you apply it. As I mentioned in the write up some areas are hard to get the CF to stick & not distort.

Have you tried using vacuum bagging for the epoxy, you can make a cheap set up using an old fridge compressor, I use to make kite and surf boards out of paulownia with fliers and fish tails and the vac bagging helped in getting the carbon or FG cloth to fit complex curves. The other benefit of vac bagging is that you will get a lighter finished product as you dont tend to use as much epoxy as hand layups