RE: glassing floats
I like to use 3/4 oz. cloth and Zap Z-Poxy finishing resin thinned 50% with methal hydrate. (Used to make windshield washer fluid), available at your local hardware store. Then either fill the weave with another coat of epoxy, not thinned so much, or a few coats of Polycrylic filler.
Hope this is helpful.
Bill