It took me a little longer to finish the kitchen work than I thought (and I’m still not totally done), but I don’t need the garage anymore to finish that, so I can get started on the kit finally! I started by smoothing down one of the two spar reinforcing bars for the horizontal stabilizer’s rear spar. I probably spent 1.5 hours on this, but most of that time was spent experimenting with different tools and techniques. The second spar reinforcing bar only took me about 30 minutes.
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