The photo looked like a cabane strut to me but between my fuzzy eyes and the fuzzy photo I wouldn't swear to it. I hate these lined trifocals. I used 2-56 control rod/wire for N-Struts on an Aeromaster so I could adjust the incidence, I did a nice job of soldering and getting them yo shape and size. They worked great until I would take plane up and really tear up the sky. When I would land there was always a broken wire. I would snap it clean off. Piano wire was better and didn't break but I had to borrow one of the dies to cut the correct threads for the clevises we use. They aren't a normal 2-56.
How i learned about not using heat to bend my LG wires. I scratch built a nice little 40 size Fokker D-VII and bent all my LG wires with heat, what a nice job I did, perfect bends and almost no effort at all. I was so pleased with my work I made up an extra set of gear. On the roll out for my first take off one of the axels snapped off before I got it off the ground?? I installed my extra set, all went well until the landing and both axels broke off and the wheels went ther own way.It was then my advanced instructor mentioned to me that the wire needed to be bent cold and told me the trick obout notching the grooves in my vise for different size wires.