Brother was in town and got to see a little bit of airplane building action. He's an A&P so I figured he's qualified to help.

We got the front spar riveted to the ribs and proceeded with the skin to spar rivets. I don't have my elevator horns so was careful not to proceed too far.

Started looking at the counterbalance and realized that I had the orientation of the skins incorrect. I was running the counterweight skin over the elevator skin, which made sense from an aerodynamics standpoint but there is no way I could have installed the rivets as shown in the plans. I see that it clearly shows the elevator skin over the counterweight skin. Looks good that way I suppose. I'll stop here before riveting just to make sure.

And my new HS spar arrived along with two tubes of proseal!