HI Troy,

Yes, I've got about two days worth of work into tweaking these formers. I drew the outlines in Adobe Illustrator, with center lines etc. This all will work well in the fuse jig that I have planned for later this week. These formers are AWESOME, I had fun with the inside lightning holes and shapes. I am going to rip out another set tonight with a few more additional tweaks, I am planning on building two airframes initially.

I am going to be running a YS 140 DZ - so I am using 3/16 ply 3/16 balsa firewall otherwise the rest of the material is per the plans. I have actually made 3 sets of formers so far. Each set is usuable but not as acurate as this last set.

Sorry but I won't be sharing my drawings at this time, hope you understand... but I'll take pictures of everything to show you how and what I am doing....

Let's see what your doing Troy?

You can recreate what I have done, I didn't do anything special here, and it only took me two days.... ; ) The interesting thing I discovered is that it was easier working in metric. I am building the fuse gig in millimeters.

I will be plotting fuse side templates and will print them out on roll paper just like I have done the former templates. the paper templates will have former stations printed in postition, this should make setting up the jig pretty freaking perfect. I will be using laser levels instead of the "String" method that Mike suggests - more on this later....., I'll be able to align the wing and stab tubes in the gig - this is going to FREAKING ROCK!!!!

I've got my digital scales coming in a few days, I will be getting my weight sheets going soon. Sorry that I have been only posting pictures with little text, I've been working like 20 hour days on this since saturday, been too busy drawing, cutting, drawing, cutting....

stay tuned - this Black Magic will be one BAD BAD BOY!!!


Dean