Debured rest of rudder parts, & marked center lines, as well as marked ribs locations and orientation. Unfortunatly I discovered I was shipped wrong clecos from supplier, so I will have to wait on some 5/32 black ones for the rudder horn/bottom rib. I could go ahead and move on to other ribs, but I am still in the scared first time builder phase.I must follow plan ver-batum. Need to order a primer. Still have not decided on type, or coverage.(just contact points, or whole parts?) I guess I will do some reading on that while I wait for my clecos. Also i left the cap off my first Sharpie marker. Something tells me that will not be the last one that bites the dust

Primed the whole skeleton, but will probably only do contact points on skins. I need to learn to drill out rivets, as I am not happy with one of mine. For the record MEK smells horrible, but it does remove the stickers, markings, and grease really easily. I'm on to the skins when I get a free moment. I'm a bit nervous for some reason handling them, Im guessing since this will be the cover of the book so to speak. Oh yeah, I got some retractable Sharpies......Forgot to retract....One more Sharpie bites the dust. Note to self: invest in Sharpie.

I backdrilled the rear rudder skin, and cleco'd on the the skeleton. I then slipped the nose skin on, and adjusted the spar to 90 degrees, then directions say to use hole finding tool to line up the center of the nose rib to be drilled for the nose skin and I only have one question. What is a hole finder tool? I watche the Homebuilt Help DVD and will probably jut go with their method of checking the angle and extending the centerline from the main spar. Anyways, I had to go inside to have dinner with the wifey so I will finish up the ruddder another day. It looks like a rudder now though, its not far from complete. Need to see about ordering the rest of the empanage. Do they discount the rudder from that or do you have to order the whole kit? I will figure that out too so I know how many penny to roll.

I have been done with the rudder for a while. I have been so busy with work, and life (In that order) I haven’t continued on with my project. The bug has bitten and I have got to get going again. The rudder went together very well and looks good. The most difficult thing for me getting the centerline of the ribs when drilling through the skin. I am going to order one of those fancy tools for just this reason, however in the spirit of ingenuity I fastened two hacksaw blades together, filed the teeth off and used the stock holes to line up drill points. Slip the skin between the points and KAPOW! Worked for me anyways. I will post a picture of it and my finished rudder as soon as I have time I promise. If I can every figure out how to take all my digital pics and get a slideshow to play fast enough it makes a stop motion-ish short film. Pretty cool.

12' x 4' work tabel
Here are the plans I used.
http://ch601.org/tools/Visio-12%20foot%20work%20table.pdf

Only modification was to plane the beams because I had access to the equipment.