Here's something to save you time cutting carbon or fiberglass

[Stillwet]

you know i use to have a great lil' srcroll saw my grandfather gave me but they do not make the blades for it any more. believe it or not i'm quite good free hand at the Dremel tool, have to,scratch build Z scale. Harbor Freight has one i have had my eye on for awhile but the Dremel is too easy to use.

[fweasel]

i use cellophane tape to keep from fraying and the resin (West Coast Systems melts it away without any indication of the tape at all).

Got a link or a brand name on that tape? I'd like to try that.

[Stillwet]

Got a link or a brand name on that tape? I'd like to try that.

Scotch brand tape.

[fweasel]

Scotch brand tape.

Ha, I read cellophane and assumed it was something exotic.

[Stillwet]

Ha, I read cellophane and assumed it was something exotic.

It't only exotic when i apply it
the neatest thing when i built my 1941 16' Hydroplane Chris Craft kit #1254 was covering the Mohogany planks and Styrene strips with 2oz. (very fine) cloth fiber glass and resin and the cloth just disappeared, i was floored.

[ray schrauwen]

I just use my band saw with a regular ole stainless steel cutting blade. Zips through like nothing.

I use low tack masking tape and put iton my clothes once first. The MAS epoxy makes the glue dissolve.

[Stillwet]

what's MAS epoxy? and why put the tape on your clothes? make it a lil' less tacky?

[Prodrvr]

I tried using the scotch tape...epoxy didn't dissolve a thing. The damn tape just started sliding out from under as I was setting the epoxy.