I have a selection of fillet sticks, generally cut from 1/4" ply and shaped
with the belt sander. Widths vary up to about 2-1/2". Also good for small
fillets are tongue depressors (the standard mixing stick) and the West
System plastic sticks. A putty knife picks up the squeeze-out
These get cleaned with the belt sander (except for the tongue depressors
which are tossed and the West System sticks which clean when bent).
<Sandy.Pittendrigh.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Here's a handy tool that works.......for puttying inside corners prior
> to overlapping
> with class fabric and resin.
>
> Go to K-mart, Wall-mart or Target and buy
> two cheap, meat cleaver-shaped Japanese
> vegetable chopping knives. Grind the front face of each knife so it
> forms
> a right angle with the sharp edge of
> the blade. Now grind a nice rounded
> fillet shape onto the front corner of
> each knife, so one knife has a slightly
> wider radius than the other.
>
> The small diameter knife is perfect
> for applying epoxy putty to an inside
> corner, making a nice smooth
> inside-corner-shape in the putty. But doing so makes two long beads
> of excess squeezeout putty next the nice
> round inside corner you wanted.
>
> The second knife, with the slightly wider radius on the front corner,
> is
> perfect for scraping off the squeezeout. Because the radius of the
> rounded corner is wider on knife number two,
> you don't even have to be careful. It won't screw up the inside
> bead you just made, no matter what.
>
> Works like a champ.
> You can fillet out the inside chine corner of a boat in a 2-3 minutes
> work,
> with near perfect results.
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