Thanks for the tips. I am going to continue to use wood glue because I want to learn how to work with it (as opposed to working against it). It actually works well for my schedule - I can glue a few pieces, clamp, and leave.

Having your pictures and notes is really helpful - it is like I had already built a couple of these.

I like the masking tape idea. I use the blue masking tape for a lot of things.

It is taking me longer because I am dry assembling and figuring out how I am going to clamp things before I use the glue. I have read through the assembly manual several times and will continue to do so until it make sense - after I have read it, looked at your pictures, and thought a bit more, then things go better.

I need to get some pins like yours, and those aluminum straight edges look very neat. I feel a trip to the hobby store and hardware store coming on! A man has to have tools!

One of the best tools I have is one I built - a sanding board that allows me to easily sand wood square. For example, I put the stabs and elevators on it and can easily sand the ends square. It is just a few pieces of board glued together - the design for it was in book that I read before I started scratch building. I expect you have something like this.

The forecast was totally wrong (typical); it has continued - I drove 30 minutes to the field and was the only fool there - I hung out for a couple of hours and did get a couple of flights in. It was actually fun because there was 10 mph cross wind which made the landings interesting