First things first: you gotta have all the of the material before even thinking about making fiberglass.
This is what you basically need:
1: polyester resin
2: a lot and a lot of resin hardener
3:Sand papers from 40 up to 400
4:fiberglass mat
5: acetone
...contenant, paint brushes and gloves....these will come handy when you apply the resin on the matt.
First thing you gotta do is to fabricate a frame if you are doing something with special shape. Then you cut the matt to follow the curbs and forms of the frame. After that you tighten the matt on the frame to make sure it well laid...you dont wanna have bubbles and ends up with a form you dont want.
When you think you are ready to put the resin on the matt put the gloves on because you dont wanna have resin all over your hands, this stuff is sticky. Put the desired amount ofresin in a contenant and add a lot of hardener. Then mix all this up with the paint brushe.
Now that your frame is cover up of matt and that your resin is ready to be apply you just need to sature the matt with resin. Don t brushes the matt with the paint brushe or it will frey apart. You will know when the matt is soaked enough. :thumb:
Let it dry for some times. When it dry put another coat of resin. You can put the number of coat that you want, its all depend on you.
Now that you're piece is all covered up of fiberglass here comes the hard and long part. Take out the sand paper that you bought earlier and start sanding. Sand until the surface is smooth. You begin with something a little ruffer like 40-80 and go up as you go to make the surface smooth. Beware the rough paper like 40-80 will leave deep scratches so dont use it too much or it gonna take a lot of time to make those scratches go away.
If there is still some imperfection on it juste put some bondo where it not perfect to smoothen the surface.
Safety precaution now: Do this in a well ventilated area and use a smask for your health. Fiberglass is a real brain killer and you dont wanna breath all of the smoke the sanding will do either. Use latex glove to cover your hands so you don't get all sticky with the resin.
