Eventually it all lined up properly and I drilled some #40 holes in a few places. Clecos now hold it together. There are three leading edge skins...time to move on to the center skin.

Fitting the skins is a little tricky. You have to get the prepunched holes on both sides to line up with center lines that I drew on the spars and ribs. Here you can see the black lines on the forward spar. I spent a lot of time walking back and forth between the two sides of the wing. When you get everything lined up on one side, then it would be off on the other side. Since I didn't have a helper, it helped to use the orange cargo straps to snug it down.

These are the leading edge ribs. It's important that they be perpendicular to the leading edge spar so that they will line up with the pre-punched holes in the skins. To keep them from moving after the skin is on, I hot glued wooden blocks in place. Later I used taller blocks.

I really like this one.

Here are some of the new additions to the garage wall art...for inspirational purposes. Afterall, this is going to be a float plane.

The short guys at the bottom are the cove ribs for the flaps and ailerons.

This is the fun part. These main ribs and leading edge ribs get cleco'd in in hurry and it makes you feel like you are really making progress.

Here's the whole thing pre-positioned. Of course, it has to be taken apart and corosion proofed...then put back in place and riveted.

Here's my newest tool. Man, tools are great. This band saw makes cutting out metal parts a real snap. I was using my Dremel tool for this. It worked pretty good on that steak that I overcooked the other night, too.

Here reinforcing angles have been put on the sides of the rib as well as horizontally.

These are some of the raw material for the inboard rib. It has to be strengthened.

They look like they are lining up pretty good and no twist...notice the wooden supports at the bottom straightening out the sag.

These are the spars for the left wing.

I picked up this cool tripod used which makes it easy to get the laser level wherever you want it. It took a lot of dinking to get these posts just right.

Ok...I know it's been a long time since anything has been happening on the blog. Summer came along...my bluegrass/country band had our summer road tour (The Legends In Our Own Minds Tour...short but sweet)...the wings have been sitting gathering dust. As I was starting to get organized, Harry at New Glasair tempted me by saying he'd take my wing kit back if I wanted to come in to the Customer Assembly Center and finish it all there (in 3 weeks). That one really made me think. I mean, I really enjoy building this thing, but it's going to take a long long time. So I finally decided I'm going to build the wings...and then maybe go in to the CAC and finish it next year...or the year after. I've almost got my Zen state back again...it's the journey, not the destination...ommmmmmmmm. So in building the wings, the 4x4 supports at each end of the table have to be plum and true and all those 'do it right' kind of terms.