BMathews,
       you hit the nail on the head!!!  just exactly what i needed to hear. the "sheep in wolve's clothing" is exactly what i wanted to achieve with this plane. as both the the wing and the H. stab are mounted on flat planes, parrallel with the thrust line , changing the angles is easily and accurately done with shims at the mounting screws. the H stab is mounted on a flat  platent epoxied on top of a 5/16" built up verticle stab with elevator linkage running through it and the el. horn set up to work inside the stab to keep the tail surfaces clean on top.  actually, i even made provisions for eventually re-mounting the wing in it's "as designed position", by putting the root airfoil into the plywood fuse side doublers. so i could essentially move the wing back down as i get more accomplished as a pilot, by cutting the fuse side out to the airfoil and rebuilding the top of the fuse to it's as designed profiles.......that is, of course, if the planes makes that far!!.   it is a nice design and easy and fast to build, so i imagine i'll probably build more than just this first plane to that plan. one might say it's kind of an "advanced" plane for a first plane in 40 yrs. , but the building part of the game is the easy part for me.   i'm one of those guys who, as a kid, was reading "popular mechanics" and "mechanix illustrated", while all my buddies were reading "spyder man" and "mad" magazines. this build only follows suite to my style, as a 14-15 yr. old i built a nobler my first u-control plane, and of course, it got "re-built" a time or two.