Title: Spar work
Removed clamps from spar laminations. All sorts of excess glue dripped down over the sides which is a good thing. Better too much glue than not enough. I used a surform file to trim the excess glue off the sides and a light pass through the thickness planer to clean everything up. I then marked the spar sides to show how much needed to be removed. The cap goes from 3 laminations of 26 mm thick each at the root (78 mm total) to a single layer only 10 mm thick at the tip. The transition from 78mm to 10 mm occurs in approximately the middle third of the span. Taking the spar outside into the cold and snowy weather I spent about 1/2 hour with a powered hand plane to get the taper close. Another 1/2 hour with some sandpaper and the spar cap is beautiful. (It took me another 1/2 hour in the heated shop to warm up again.) With the spar table clear I was able to lay down the two pieces for the bottom spar cap. Due to knots and flaws in the wood I wasn't able to make this out of a single piece of wood. I had to glue two pieces together along the length of the spar to get the required width. Clamps and clamps and more clamps allowed me to glue this into on piece.


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