• 1. The notched-out part of the rudder skin goes toward the leading edge of the foam core, like where you will cut off the excess from the fin bottom.
  
• 2. The leading edge is the bigger, rounder edge.
  
• 3. You can insert missing balsa skin on an area of foam but it takes a lot of tedious sanding and it doesn't look very good.
  
• 4. It is difficult to see if your bagged core and skins are aligned perfectly in the shucks, once everything is in the bag.
  
• 5. Once you pull vacuum, you don't need to put much weight on the shucks.
  
• 6. If you are not yet keen to points #4 and #5 it is quite likely that the rudder's trailing edge will not be straight.
  
• 7. Carden's office hours are 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. (Eastern Standard Time). Phone 423-295-2295
  
• 8. Caroline answers the phone and triages your call with the utmost professionalism. (Although I have this nagging mental image of her shaking her head and laughing as she gives the phone to Dennis).
  
• 9. Dennis would make an excellent crisis counsellor.
  
• 10. Don't try to vacuum bag a complex part when you are supposed to pick up your daughter from soccer in 30 minutes
  
• 11. If you take advantage of the unseasonably warm weather to bag a wing in your garage, don't place the vacuum pump right where the roof melt drips through the ceiling.
  
• 12. Upon your discovery of a warped wing, only vent your anger with the stomps and screams of a rabid three-year-old if you are certain that no one is in the house.
  
• 13. 10-year-olds can be quite forgiving of aberrent parental behavior if time is taken to apologize and explain the behavior in its proper context.
  
• 14. 10-year-olds are tattletales.
  
• 15. Caroline's demeanor on the telephone is sympathetic and professional even with repeated calls (mental image now of her making that 'kookoo' sign - knowing glance to Dennis)
  
• 16. Dennis and Caroline are the most knowledgeable, upstanding and helpful businesspeople on the planet.
  
• 17. Don't destroy the warped wing in a fit of rage, because it might just be OK.
  
• 18. It's easy for a newb to get psyched out by the rhetoric of internet 'experts' who apparently always build everything perfect
  
• 19. Trying to make everything very very straight and level and clean-looking may bring out an unwelcome perfectionistic tendency in one's personality.
  
• 20. Spouses have a habit of pointing out one's unwelcome tendencies, mostly when you just need sympathy.
  
• 21. Screaming and cursing in front of your child decreases spousal sympathy.
  
• 22. Aileron cord length is measured perpendicular to the hinge line.
  
• 23. The root and tip of the wing are not perpendicular to the hinge line.
  
• 24. An aileron can be enlarged to its proper cord length after it is cut by adding a 1/8" strip of balsa to the leading edge before beveling
  
• 25. If something looks almost perfect, stop sanding.
  
• 26. Fathers-in-law are great at finding sanding marks and dents on your best pieces.
  
• 27. When you finish a piece and it looks like something on Bob's or Ivan's site, it feels pretty good.
  

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ORIGINAL: PTS
If you dont mind, who is Mr. Hudson?

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As a well known reputable builder told me "Welcome to the Perfectionist/Picky Builder Club".

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The funny thing is that when you mention to someone that your a building a Carden have you noticed the moment of silence and then the AH?

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ORIGINAL: gonn for good

...while sanding the balsa disapers and the pro-bond ridge is still there. My next two Cardens only will use old fashion wood glue. The drying time is a lot less than sanding an filling a concrete ridge.

Kent