"Ecopoxy" Resin

[Alasgun]

Wow, i want two of them!

 

[scoutergriz]

Bill should be selling car wax on cable tv. That smacking the sample laying on the flat granite surface is pretty cheesy. I suppose it's convincing to people who aren't tuned into persuasion tricks. And the 303.....OMG.

I'd want to see him stand that rock on edge and drop a loaded canoe on it before I'd drop an extra $600. Or at least borrow Clipper's steel hammer and give it some real swings.

I've been an acquaintance of Bill Jr for years, when his new epoxy layup first came out a few years ago Bill and I were talking about my aging fleet of expedition weight Kippawas that I was using for teaching kids and group tripping, while he was dismayed to find out I had retired and given the fleet to another instructor, he mentioned the new layup and handed me a sample piece and a 3lb club hammer I bashed that sample HARD several times on a piece of jagged granite and was surprised to see that while it creased and gouged the gelcoat, it did not visibly cut or fray a single fiber, last time I saw that kind of performance in a canoe layup it was a 2nd generation royalite Wenonah.

 

[Steve in Idaho]

I've been an acquaintance of Bill Jr for years, when his new epoxy layup first came out a few years ago Bill and I were talking about my aging fleet of expedition weight Kippawas that I was using for teaching kids and group tripping, while he was dismayed to find out I had retired and given the fleet to another instructor, he mentioned the new layup and handed me a sample piece and a 3lb club hammer I bashed that sample HARD several times on a piece of jagged granite and was surprised to see that while it creased and gouged the gelcoat, it did not visibly cut or fray a single fiber, last time I saw that kind of performance in a canoe layup it was a 2nd generation royalite Wenonah.

Thanks for that insight, and I don't doubt it a bit. It just struck me that his salesmanship is highly tuned.

Not meaning to cast aspersions on his products or his person. I should have made that clear. Yet while some people will think the difference is worth another $600, I'd be happy to have a Wildfire, for instance, with his less expensive layup, and I'd not be worried about durability.