Well I had a day off, and after flying and errands I got to spend about half the day on this. Mostly getting all the wood sorted out and figuring out how it is built and what goes where. Shaped and plywood parts come bagged in groups, and sticks and sheets come bundled in groups.

Looks like adding flaps won't be too tricky.

One bundle is (62) 36" 1/4x1/2 sticks...

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In other kits I've gotten used to cutting smaller parts out of supplied wood stock. In this kit, you combine big sticks to make really big sticks. You cut diagonals on the ends of two sticks to splice them together, then laminate another set of sticks to it with two spices, so the splices don't line up in the finished laminate.

Using a miter razorback saw didn't give me the precision I wanted for a tight and strong splice (always a bit of saw wobble, magnified at that shallow of an angle). Clamping a fence on the disk sander worked much better...





Splice joints are drying now, and it is too late to run power tools in the neighborhood. Tomorrow I'll finish up building up the spars, and hopefully knock out the center section

One thing that has changed from what I've seen in previous build threads is the bolts that hold the center section to the fuse, and the bolts that hold the spar joiners to the center section are now steel. I think I will also use blind nuts in addition to threading the wood.