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Glueing Up Some Balsa Sticks

for the Waikiki Pintail


 

Using the "garage floor cinder block method"

And into the shaping room---

I was hogging out the blank and who should stop by but Cecil Lear

Rough Shaped and breaking it apart for chambering

A piece small piece was broken off so I got some Titebond and tape

Chambers done

Glueing up a couple of pieces at at time

It went back together pretty easily. Now it's ready for shaping.

 

 

Into the glassing room

Ready for Gloss

 

Glossed

Fibreglass channel for routed in fin a la early to mid sixties

One of the chambers blew up on the air flight over to Hawaii.

I slit the glass along the delam with a razor knife and patched it with some Suncure.

I was paddling out to "Threes" with Team Balsa in no time.