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This is another league Chuck! But who am I to tell you that eh?! I'm having flashbacks to that glorious moment when I picked up Marks cowl for the first time.
@Rick, yes, fiberglass comes woven in various weaves and weights like fabric and also either a continuous strand or chopped strand in various weights, held together with a material that dissolves in the styrene monomer of the polyester resin.
The fabric has all the characteristics of regular fabric and getting it to conform to a surface with tight corners, confined spaces and quick turns is difficult.
The matte, once the coating holding it together dissolves, conforms to just about any surface because it is short pieces of fiberglass that act independently from one another and grab whatever surface it's on. You still get tight outside corners where some pop up and don't want to lay down but it's not a deal breaker.
I'm not a historian of the process but I believe the cloth came first because all the old fiberglass parts I've seen made in Hollywood back in the day were cloth. As was our beloved cowl shell.
Chuck...
Quick, Everyone, Flee for your lives, into the street!!!!
