Spent a bit of time today finishing the deburring of the HS-905 spars. Once that was all done, I took a few minutes to realize that the 1004 inspar ribs aren't ever cleco'd to the HS-905 (by, y'know, turning the page in the book to see the schematic); so I grabbed a HS-904 and then clecoed them together so I had my stencil for making the cradles.
Luckily I had some scrap plywood laying around in the garage, so I went and made my 4 Horizontal Stabilizer cradles. It was a relatively easy job, while I know the instruction say to not work too hard making them perfect, I did take the time to do some rudimentary measurements on the pictured cradles to make sure I had enough material at the side and bottom of the cradles. As a happy accident, the cutoff I had after each cradle was plenty wide enough for a base too.
After fighting with using the jigsaw as a detail-radius tool, I decided to grab the 11/16” drill bit and used that to initially drill out the leading edge (base) of each cradle, this made things much easier. After making the cradle forms, I set the miter saw so that it could make some rudimentary dado-style cuts, and I cut a board-width into each base in the middle. A bit of glue and a few staples through the bottom of the base and I had my cradles all made. After that, I took some duct tape (doubled up near the leading edge since I'm paranoid for the future leading edge sitting in there) and finished up the cradles.