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By Rachael Geerts – GBI Composites Materials Engineer Featured image (above): A typical vacuum bagging setup. What is vacuum bagging? Vacuum bagging is when a composite that is laid up and wet out by hand is then put under vacuum to compact the laminate and force out excess epoxy. Vacuum bagging has been a choice […]
By Captain James R. Watson When I was a kid, my older brother had a slingshot that was fashioned from a tree crotch. The wood fibers neatly followed the desired shape and nicely addressed the forces when operated. Centuries ago, many large ship components — knees, hooks, and floors were selected from forks, crotches and […]
By Captain James R. Watson Steve Taylor of Steve Taylor-Builder, Inc. contacted us before undertaking a rather interesting project. He was about to build a boat shelter on an island in the St. Lawrence River. The design called for a row of curved laminated wooden struts, or columns supporting curved laminated tapered beams that would […]
Since 1983 the Walpole, New Hampshire sculptor Jonathan Clowes (Clowes Sculpture) has been creating mobiles that hang in institutions and residences across the country. He uses WEST SYSTEM® epoxy as an adhesive and a coating for the wood laminate that form these pieces. Clowes describes his technique: “In general, the long sinuous parts are formed from […]
By John Lindahl The Muskegon Luge Club has a run set up at the Muskegon State Park and was in need of rental luge sleds for those people learning to luge. No luge sleds are built in the United States, and the club contacted us about the possibility of building sleds.
