Glassing Fine details

Just a quick question, when doing a project with fine details such as a door pannel portion by the handle or maybe a dash bezel,or something with a lot or close small curves and angles, anything that is obviously has too much tight curvature to be laying a piece of mat over (cause you will lose the detailed shape) do most of you use the bondo/fiber glass mix and work it by hand or just straight bondo? Or something else? Thanks in advance.go custom or go home!!

Check out this thread. It's long and confusing, but it sounds like what you want. I've never tried it this way, but it seems doable. How To: Duplicating a radio bezel.Nik

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that helped a little bit, I just gave a radio bezel as an example of something with "tight curves", lets try this example, say you're going to to your door pannels and you wanted to use the stock pannels as your frame persay. Well obviously most would probably stretch some fleece and call it good but my question pertains to the area on a door pannel where the handel comes through, or where you'd grab to close the door. On most vehicles there's a few tight curves and a bit of detail there. And if you just stretched fleece over or even used mat you're going to loose quite a bit of detail after the glass dries cause it doesn't take to fine curves real well (too thick/bulky) to reflect the detail you just glassed over thus your project looks rather blah. So I'm asking in areas like this would one use something like bondo glass cause you can paste that on and form it to match all the curves and detail prior to drying or is there another method?go custom or go home!!

I'm not sure I totally understand. If you want to keep the shape and tight curves of that area, just leave that area alone. You should be able to go around small areas like that and then blend them into the areas that you do modify. Like if your doing speakers in the bottom of the door, you don't have to go all the way up to the handle. Or if you want to, you could cut a hole in the fleece around that area, continue with resin ext, then use a filler to mold the 2 areas together.Nik

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