Well, we got some decent weather allowing me to get a couple o 300 x 300mm samples down on a piece of standard ply - no marine ply on hand as yet.
Here are my observations.
Epoxy: West Systems 105 with 206 Hardener.
Cutting: The glass cut beautifully with my Fiskers HD Circular cloth cutter. No issues cutting clean edges and lines, I even cut a few tight curves - no worries. The fibre threads that can pull away from the cloth once cut are more like feather quills than fibres from the common cloth. What I mean by this is they are defiantly stiffer and don't spread out like cotton candy anywhere near as much as standard cloth.
Wetting: Ass always I let gravity work for me during the wetting stage - I put a good even coat of epoxy on the ply then add the cloth over it and just leave it for a few minutes. Standard cloth wets itself out about 90% just using gravity to pull it down into the epoxy. I was suprised that although the Anodised cloth is stiffer, it still wetted itself out about 80%. This pic shows the two samples after just being laid on to the epoxy.
This after about 5 mins...
As you can on this red sample, it wetted itself through about 80% on its own. Then using a thing foam roller I added only to the dry areas then a final roll over the full piece.
The next test I wanted to do was to use a spreader/scraper onto of the glass to see if I could raise any of the Anodised powder from the cloth. I used a Tongue Depressor and gave it some decent pressure while scrapping of any extra epoxy. As you can see, the blue powder did lift some. but as I pressed with more pressure than I would with a scraper, I dont feel this an issue. **Unless I thought later, you were going over thick edge and needed some extra pressure to get it to conform. That will be my next test.
I only scraped down one edge so I could compare the two.
Here is a close up of the two with a filler coat on, no finishing. Gotta say, it looks pretty good. although it did lose some of that woven carbon effect once it was filled with epoxy. BUT I haven't done any finishing/polishing as yet so I am hoping the effect comes through a bit more once shinned up.
Ill do the Shaped testing soon, more than happy to answer any Q's