EPOXYWORKS Number 26, Summer 2008 Cover story: Ted Brewer's design Quiet Times sparked Carl Puehl’s imagination when he saw it featured in The Boatbuilder magazine. He studied the design and said, "I can do that." Five years later he had done it. Puehl built the long range cruiser nearly single-handed in a pole barn behind his house in Saginaw, Michigan. Puehl stretched Brewer’s design to 37 feet and ended up with a comfortable, reliable and highly fuel-efficient yacht, perfect for exploring North America’s numerous lakes and inland waterways. Puehl took lots of photographs during the constructions of his project and gave us this well-documented article. Also: Jennifer Lee and Pablo won a design competition for the Museum of Modern Art's Young Architects Program and used WEST SYSTEM epoxy in a project at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. J. R. Watson shows how to build carbon fiber/epoxy composite tubes and a set of planer boards. More tips and techniques for using G/flex epoxy including the repair of an ABS canoe. Tom Pawlak offers tips for building a trebuchet and repairing a lawn mower.

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Building the Fifty Plus
A Michigan handyman uses his skills, patience, and spare time to build Ted Brewer’s Quiet Times.

Summer in the city
WEST SYSTEM® epoxy is used in an architectural project sponsored by New York City's Museum of Modern Art.

Building composite tubes
J. R. Watson shows how you can use low-tech ingenuity to build high-tech carbon fiber tubes.

Repairing a walnut gun stock
How reader Randy Barkley repaired a broken walnut gun stock with a 101 Handy Repair Pack.

Storm the castle
Building a trebuchet for a high school Science Olympiad competition.

Quick lawn mower repair
Tom Pawlak will attempt to fix just about anything with epoxy, including his mother-in-law’s lawnmower.

Gluing plastic with G/flex®
What we've learned about bonding to one of the most difficult materials to bond to.

Repairing a Royalex™ Canoe with G/flex Epoxy
Putting G/flex and plastic bonding techniques to the test on a severely cracked canoe made of ABS.

D-ring pads and G/flex Epoxy
A bonding experiment opens up new possibilities for attachments to HDPE boats.

Upright bass repair
With West System epoxy handy, breaking an old bass fiddle is nothing to fret about.

Fasteners demonstrate G/flex toughness
A simple experiment, pounding a nail into epoxy, opened the door to other uses for G/flex.

Mixing G/flex epoxy with other West System® epoxies
Blended G/flex 650 epoxy and 105 Resin-based epoxy to alter their cured characteristics.

How to build a set of planer boards
A successful planer board design to help fishermen achieve successful trolling.

Large scale event sculpture
Sculptor Keith Tucker carves large blocks of polystyrene to create sculptures on a grand scale

Published twice a year by Gougeon Brothers, Inc., Epoxyworks (Product number 000-605) is a magazine about building, restoring and repairing with epoxy. It offers helpful tips, the latest techniques, projects you can build, readers' projects, and news from the Gougeon research and test labs. A free three-year subscription is available for residents of the U.S. and Canada.