Well, yeah! Otherwise they would just be blank pieces of wood and I would have to bust them myself!


No new pics, but I did start gluing up the Fuse last night. Started with the landing gear block, epoxied it together. The reason I did it the way I did is, had I just squared it up, and clamped it, it may not have fit correctly and since it is edge to face glued, forcing it in place may stress the glue joints, weakening an important joint. I epoxied it to the fuse at the same time, and clamped it all together with the wedges. I then glued in the filler plates, placed parchment paper over them and attached the bottom sheet with more wedges to compress the fillers to the correct depth.

I then went ahead and reinstalled all the formers and top and bottom sheets that were previously all sanded. I still need to do a little edge sanding before gluing the bottom sheet in, missed a few bumps. After that started gluing the tank floor and main 1/4" ply formers, F2, F3 and F4 and the wing plates. I will come back to those with some tri stock and epoxy to give them more strength. The design is to use medium CA on all the joints, and given the construction, that should be more than enough, but I know how I fly, Hard, Lot's of G's, so every little bit extra reinforcement helps.

Where the joints were tight I used thin CA to wick in, and followed up with Titebond, where there were small gaps I use medium CA, then clamped it tight until set, and then followed up with a fillet of Titebond. If everything goes well I should have the fuse glued tonight, tomorrow should have just about everything else on the fuse done and start on the next steps which I believe are the tail pieces. Those are much smaller so I can build all those on my regular bench.