ORIGINAL: remc59
You might considert taking a stright edge and a knife to the leading edge of the elevator.
Bending steel vs. trimming balsa. I'll take trimming balsa.
Hell no. It will take 2 seconds to straighten that out as opposed to all of the sanding required to even out the wood. Not to mention all of the possibilities of screwing it up.
Just bend the metal rod, it's not like you need to be Superman. Geeze, it's only a little piece of wire, not a steal girder.