Tuesday night (couple of days ago) I got another frames assembled. This it the first I've really succeeded with that wasn't a "bulkhead". This design has some "bulkheads" that are pretty much solid sheets of ply with 1x4 frames at the edges. Other frames are mostly open with the 1x4's being the major part and just some smaller pieces of ply serving as stiffeners/gussets that also extend up to support interior fittings. Its a good way to make the ply pieces serve multiple rolls. Anyway, I put one of these together before, but got it wrong.

This one I got right. Going ahead and adding the temporary crosspiece at the top BEFORE gluing make it a lot easier.

FYI... if you haven't seen a bag of Cabosil before, here's a pic... I'm using it to thicken the epoxy and it seems to work well. Weird stuff... seems to weigh nothing.

Time = 1 hour

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