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Originally from the deep nothing of allness and forever returning to create peace and understanding. He might shift and sway through time and dimensions as water flowing down from the mountain but Cypress is just trying to bring a calm to the world through serenity of body, mind, and spirit.
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Once the fabric gets smoothed out it's time to mix up the gooey stuff we all love known as epoxy and spread it onto your stripper.
Wed, October 24, 2007 - 6:29 PM
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The first round takes all freakin' day. You have to put down 1 full layer of fiberglass and a couple abrasion layers. Each layer takes a couple coats. I started my day around 10am and finished up sometime around 2am the following morning. 
so the first images were from like 2003, started and finished stripping the hull winter/spring of 2006. summer of 2006 and I'm finally starting the fiberglassing for the bottom half of the kayak.
Wed, October 24, 2007 - 6:24 PM
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A step I had a good deal of anxiety and worry about,...but it turned out to be not so bad.
I didn't get any pictures of this process, but basically I spent many, many hours, using a block plane to rough smooth the hull to remove major bupms and edges, than a random orbital sander to remove more stock and remove gouges left over from the block plane, than used a fairing board (flexible board with sand paper glued to it) to do the final smoothing and finishing to prep for fiberglassing.
Wed, October 24, 2007 - 6:21 PM
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BTW - I hate sanding,..... lesson learned though: spend more time on the sanding,.... 
I found the best thing to pull the staples out was a butter knife and a small piece of a strip to use as leverage and to protect the hull from big gouges. this took some time.
Wed, October 24, 2007 - 6:14 PM
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Once you get past the first 15 or so strips on either side, instead of overlapping and interlacing the alternating strips, each strip has to be hand shaped to nest into the the opposite side. For the hull I did a matched designed. It was big pain. It took about 1 to 2 hours to fit, shape, glue and staple.
Wed, October 24, 2007 - 6:11 PM
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Here's the fully stripped hull, ready for staple removal. I have also rough shaped the stern and bow by hand using a pull saw and a block plane.
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