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Originally Posted by weir mako 21
Strick,
Is there a reason for the reverse chines on a couple of your bracket designs (both the 20' I think) and no reverse chines on the ones you have made for the 23's? Very nice work as usual.
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No not really. I got in a hurry on the big bracket and forgot to put them in. Also I was working with that melamine board (white laminate on both sides) for the first time and I usually use MDF. With MDF you can slap some glass the outside of the mold to help keep it together but you cannot do that with the melamine. When I built the mold for the big bracket I was thinking that I had to glass the outside of the mold to hold the reverse chine in place but then today I went back and looked at my build photos of the bracket thats on the yellow 20 and saw that I could do it without glassing them in. My thinking is that the reverse chine adds a little buoyancy..... I dont know. If nothing else I think it looks cool so I decided to do it again. I would recommend the melamine board for molds when applicable because the part practically slides out when you go to remove it. If you notice on the swim platform I used MDF because of the way that I build that mold trying to staple it together wont keep it stable enough so it needs to be glassed.
strick