Craft Air Cowboy Build
I've started a scratch build of a craft air cowboy. I'm not sure if it belongs with the kit builds or the scratch builds, but since I'm working off of a kit plan I thought this would be the better forum to post in. I've always seemed to start with the wing, not sure why but always have. This is my 1st built up balsa plane in 30 years and I've just restarted the hobby in June, thanks to my wife. The wing is a constant cord so that makes it pretty easy. I dabbed a very small amount of hot melt to the template and put it on the 1/8" balsa sheet and then cut out the basic form of the rib leaving a bit of excess. I then used the template to finish the form using my table mounted router with piloted edge trim bit. This technique worked out very well and I only lost 1 or 2 ribs to tear outs. The spar is made from a piece of clear cedar siding recovered from an old farm house.