Spar End Fabrication - 4Hrs

Cutting, grinding, filing, and wire wheel polished half of the spar end pieces today.  Wow, that 4130 chrome alloy steel is H A R D! stuff.  Went through four jigsaw blades cutting the 1/8" material.  Following the plans I needed to cut off 1/4" of material from the end to 2" from the other end to allow for the spar ends in the spar angles.  I set up the parts to show the way it will fit together:

So here is what 4hours of work looks like:

Very satisfied with progress today.  It was quite rewarding to take the raw metal from bar to finished shaped part.  So these are officially the first real aircraft parts that I have made!  

I will cut the spar webs tomorrow hopefully.  Need to get some help unrolling the .040 Sheet to do that.  Also will need to clear off the work bench to do that.  Sheet is 12' long.  And I need to cut two lengths of 93 1/2" and one 35" by 7" pieces for those parts.

Stay tuned!