Wings nearly there

Having covered the first set of (4) wings nearly 7 years ago I’d forgotten how fiddly it can be 😊

Its a mix of frustration and sheer delight as the heat gun tightens everything to perfection

All the little bits in between are the challenging bits …

• Making sure all ‘hard’ edges are chamfered down
• Making sure you mark the templates for both Top and Bottom covering before sealing one side down
• Checking that you have pre glued the wood surfaces as dried off surfaces don’t look like they have been prepped
• Getting sufficient pegs or tape to hold wings down whilst you pre mark the glue areas
• Getting the overlaps right.. in terms of size (top always goes OVER the bottom)

One key thing to remind myself .. once you have trimmed and pre glued and let it go off and get to the exciting stage of fit .. don’t charge ahead and try to tackle and shrink straight away

The shrink rate is about 25% and can easily pull the tag points away if they haven’t been allowed to cool