I cut the aluminum struts, which of course I made way more complicated than probably needed to be. I had previously made dummy struts out of basswood, which were cut to a calculated length, although the exact angle of the cut at the fuselage end was done ad-hoc fashion. I eventually theorized that I could lay out a planform of the strut on a piece of plywood, drawn in it's normal plane, and then could cut the end of the struts by angling the cutting tool appropriately. I made an angle alignment tool from scrap wood, based on the angle of the strut to the fuse seen on the front view of the undercarriage.

I want to test the idea that the Aluminum is strong enough without reinforcement. Maybe it will work IF it only is stressed in compression (or tension). I hope to make the entire affair rigid enough, that any forces will be absorebed entirely in the elastic band that will be bound around the ends of the axle.