Lately I’ve been working on making a seat for my cafe bike. I built a mold using 1/8" plywood for the base and then used green floral foam and shaped the rear cowl with some saws and sandpaper. Then I taped over every square inch with painters tape and then covered that with aluminum tape. Next came 4 coats of wax to make sure the mold will release the fiberglass.
This brings me to where I am currently. The mold is all ready to go but I’m hesitant to start laying anything on it. I went and bought some fiberglass mat as well as some woven fiberglass cloth but can’t figure out which to use for this application. I’ve used mat before on the first seat I built and had a hard time getting even thickness over the entire piece. The cloth looks like it would work out perfectly but since I’ve never used it before, I’m not sure if I can use it for this application. Anyone who has worked with fiberglass, when do you use the cloth?