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Originally Posted by Rata
Hey Bob. Nothing new facing a tricky biplane build. I've found having a good 3-view as a reference and doing the cabane (centre) struts only first, checking angles and distances are same as the 3-view is (to me) the best approach. The outer struts I then cut overlength and then the old try, snip, try again, snip and finally glue method. Others do things differently, but this just works for me.
And I hope you haven't really been holding your breath since June....
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I agree on doing the cabanes first. That's the way I have done bipes for many many years and many guilds including stick & tissue, plasteeq and now paper. When I was a kid that is how we chiseled them out of rocks.
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