raw fibreglass edges

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Can anyone suggest a neat, smart pref. easy edging for numerous raw edges to the fibreglass moulding throughout my boat, please? (Such as locker edges)

Thanks again chaps.

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a cheap and easy solution is to go to a specialist car trimmer and buy push-on edging. it's usually black, has a textured surface and is about 12mm wide. not the most elegant but quick, cheap & easy.

next up from that is teak mouldings which you can buy in straight lengths and rounded corner pieces from e.g. <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.k.j.howells.dial.pipex.com/welcome.htm>here</A>

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Can anyone AFFORD rounded teak mouldings from Howells?

£5.80 for one corner worked out at around £1000 for my boat.

Ended up making my own;- CNC router, not cross-grain (i.e. grain along arc of corner), perfect from the machine finish; could sell at £1.20 and still make a profit!

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First buy your router ? :eek:)) Do you really have a CNC router? I can think of so may things that can be undertaken on a boat with one, What sort of price are they?
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Rob

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Mine cost £36,000! But I do use it for other things!

Having programmed it to produce the mouldings and costed the finished items, I could not believe what was being charged in the market place.

Apparently, those in the catalogues are turned and then split. Lot of manual effort. Produced like that, there is a lot of waste and a lot of cross grain which makes them fragile.

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