April 02, 2012

Centre Foot - Mark 2.8

Sanded down lower foot lip. Applied more wood filler to sides of foot lip and then sanded again, once dried. Thinking how best to make/do the slots. Had thought about making a cardboard template, then transferred it onto some 3mm thick hardboard. Cut out the slots and then glue the trim onto the base lip. Then decided to try and just cut into the lip with my dremel fitted with the router attachment, to keep things square.

First slot doesn't look to bad, once cleaned up :)
Did the front and back slots, took me half hour. Again, they'll need cleaning up.

Then I did the sides. The black dots in the picture above, are where the edges need wood filler. Added wood filler to straighten out the edges of the slots. Then once dried, sanded to shape. I applied some PVA glue to the cut wood grain, to help seal prior to spraying with primer. Once dried, I gave it a coat of primer to check finish of slots etc

Next I used masking tape to clamp the foot shell and the lip section together. Then used P40 resin along the inside edges.

Once that was dried, I applied more wood filler to the outside join between the two sections.
Once dried, sanded it all down and then sprayed with primer. Then finally, on with a few coats of the white and then the clear top coat.  :)
Oooops, almost forgot, to stick on the aluminium front/rear strips.
R5-D4

Now it's finished! :)

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