Used 1708 biaxial fabric and epoxy resin. The first 2 plys laid down with the aluminum plates and rivets holding everything in alignment. Let these 2 layers cure and a day or two later drilled out the rivets and removed the plates.
Scuffed the first layup by hand with 100 grit paper and readied my core material that is replacing what I removed behind where the controls and electronics will go. I used a piece of 3/4" meranti plywood bonded in with thickened epoxy.
Let the thickened epoxy around the core kick just enough that I could wet everything out and put 2 more plys of glass down without messing up the radiuses I made around the core material. Taped over all the rivet holes on the outside of the console to keep resin from squeezing through them and making a mess.
