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By Tom Pawlak — GBI Technical Advisor Photo above: Dented varnish repaired with G/5 Five minute adhesive. The repair area is quite difficult to detect. A few years ago a customer approached me at one of the trade shows to say he loves our G/5 Five-Minute Adhesive for filling dents in wood trim prior to reapplying […]
by Captain James R. Watson Photo at top: How a simple S hook can save your 801 Roller Frame. When you’ve completed a coating task using an 801 Roller Frame and 800 Roller Cover, what next? The frame is reusable. But if you leave it resting in the pan while the residual epoxy cures, you‘ll […]
How WEST SYSTEM® Products Got Their Start By Meade Gougeon — GBI Founder 2009 was the 40th Anniversary of Gougeon Brothers, Inc. 1969 marked a point in the Gougeon brothers’ careers when they applied all they had learned about wooden structures and epoxy technology to manufacture, for the first time, a product utilizing wood/epoxy composite construction. […]
By Tim Veale Above: A graphite composite fly rod with all of the guides attached with G/flex to maximize the rod’s flexibility. Fly fishing, particularly for Atlantic Salmon, has been my lifelong hobby. The fly rod itself has an ancient past but its technical prowess as an instrument to launch line and fly to a […]
A 2-Story Deck Repair by Jeff Blackmon Above: Blackmon’s two-story deck is supported by 6×6 redwood posts resting on concrete footings. I needed to make a deck repair because there was wood rot at the bases of the support posts for my large, two-story patio deck. This bi-level deck has patio furniture on the top […]
