Thread: How I make fiberglass upholstery panels for strange shapes.

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We're ready for fiberglass!!! The drywall mud has been applied and sanded twice. If we were doing a wall, we'd go for one more coat, but that isn't necessary here. As I said before, the surface that you see in this picture will become the hidden side of the fiberglass upholstery panel. Tomorrow morning I will coat the white area and the masking taped area with 3 coats of paste wax (the type used for floors), and not polish it, just leave it as applied. The fiberglass mat will be cut large enough to cover all of the white area and overlap onto the masking tape about
1 1/2" all the way around. I will wet the fiberglass mat with resin and hardner on my old workbench tabletop, using a "throw away" paintbrush, then pick up the whole gooey mess and apply it to the surface. (I wear disposable rubber gloves for this operation). I will put 2 layers on right away, then wait an hour for it to harden, then apply 2 more layers. If you try to do 4 layers at once on a vertical surface, it will "slump" into a big ugly wad at the bottom of the area that it was applied to. I will post a picture tomorrow with the glass in place.