Commander #256 (Ceili)

[Chance]

Today I finished the tapering of the new rudder core. The jig that clamping fixture was a bit of a challege for me because it involed compound angles. It's easy to taper a project when both sides of the jig run parallel to one another, but on this style of rudder (constellation profile), that's not the case. The trailing edge jig runs at two different angles to account for the rudder profile. I did a lot head scratching and discussed the chanllenges with my wife for some time, before proceeding. In the end I'm happy with the outcome. My first side had a little goof where the straight bit dug in a bit too much in one pass, as seen in an earlier post. Needless to say, I perfected the process on the second and last side.