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Re: pic: Wood Coast Drive

When you take a thin layer of fiberglass and epoxy it over wood the strength and stiffness goes off the chart... you'd have to figure out a way to fillet the corners a bit to allow the glass to flow smoothly over the edges.

Actually, once you got good at glassing you could replace the plywood with balsa and go for...

Oh, wait. You said this weighs 6.5 lbs? Yeah, I don't think the weight savings will be worth it. Wood is pretty amazing on it's own.

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