prodigal1 wrote:

Stephen Trapani wrote:

Well, so far I don't see anything in the thread better than the method
I last used, two guys with sharpened (and resharpened and
resharpened...) 3/4 inch chisels scraping their brains out. It took us
about three long days to do a 33ft sailboat.


How did you avoid gouging the ****e out of the gelcoat?

Push scraping, steep angle on the chisel blade, a piece of cardboard
between the back end of the chisel and your hand to hold down the
bruising, and it wasn't much of an issue.

--
Stephen

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