Thanks for the input Alex. I personally think that the Elmer's maybe good in areas of no stress. You can see by the pictures that the 1/4 inch stringers are of hardwood and when you try to bend them to the contours of the fuse that must surely put some stress on the former joint at the keel. It's not a major problem just a nagging one. I clean off the broken joint and dab some epoxy there and this seems to work just fine. I've only had about 10 or 12 separated joints and this isn't much when you see the amount of joints the complete fuse takes with stringers and such. I'm even contemplating making my own hardwood stringers. The ones in the kit are not long enough so you have to use 2 in some places. I can go to Lowe's and get some poplar wood in 8 foot lengths and use my table saw and planer or router table to make some 8 foot 1/4 inch stringers or what ever I need. Then I might soak the stringers in water and try to bend them to the contour of whatever I'm doing and hope that when they dry they will be in the contour I want. I've seen that Norm Abrams on The New Yankee Workshop use steam to bend wood to some pretty drastic contours.

Tally Ho



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