After having rivetted the stiffeners to the skin, first assembly of the skins and skeletton. The all the holes get match drilled.



Then everything gets undone, the holes deburred and dimpled. The skeleton was then sanded in preparation for priming. I finished the afternoon by countersinking the angle that finishes the trailing edge. To do this a built a little jig on my drillpress so that the upper face of the angle stays horizontal while drilling.

The skeleton is complete. The painting did not go as well as expected (I think due to a problem with the gun) and as I have to wait for the paint to dry, I decided to begin working on the elevator.

Still preparing the stiffeners : deburring and dimpling. Next the skins got carefully deburred as they are only 0,016 in thick.

Beginning of the rudder work by cutting and trimming the stiffeners. Each stiffener has to be cut to length then trimmed to allow for the smaller trailing edge. The everything gets deburred ans match drilled to the skins.
Next I begun working on the skeleton by fabricating some small parts from alclad strips.

The horizontal stab is now completely riveted. All went well with only a few rivets to drill out. The only remaining work is now the tips, but I first have to find and buy the epoxy products.The inside with the rivets shop heads and the pop rivets that are sometimes used.



And the finished product.