Outstanding thread, outstanding safety considerations & practices. The guys are right - won't be long until you'll both be needing #2 & #3 planes.
Yeah, you guys are doing it right, for sure!! Well done.
BTW, reading some of the other posts has pretty much convinced me - I've been using too few rubber bands - - for 40 years. I only use them once though, and I've never had a failure, yet.