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In the past few year I've built a couple of masts.
I've used a mast and a clam shell mold made from that mast laying the glass then pressing the mast into the shell.
This year I have some other guys intersted in building a few masts. We just completed the first 2 halves. We now just have to trim up and start with loft tube placement. The few masts that I've made have not broken but also don't bend like I want them too. The lay up this time was about 6 layers of biaxle glass. The halves bend well, but the halves have always bent well at this stage. Once glued the bend changes.

I was thinking for my mast to try: placing uni-directional carbon from the tip of the mast to 2 feet past the hound to make it stiffer and force the bottom to pop.