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It all looks good to me; but, Cracker Jacks: - Are they NCAA!?

Thank you, rustystud, for going to the trouble to make the calls and nail down a final kind of answer. Some folk don't go that distance and instead just blow smoke with arguments, and that's no fun.

I am liking the concept: - Investment and time, as measured in Beer. :beer:

I'm not an arborist or anything, but pretty sure that poplar in North America is Tulip Poplar. One of the oldest tree species in the world (it flowers; that's the give-away). There's a Lombardy Poplar, european species, but not sure they're even related. School is out; tree lesson is over...

Yes, that WOULD have been bad; never would have thought to mention it to the bud. But you're right.

We can never get enough. :-)

I didn't know that; very cool!

You're not alone, stud. I've been catching myself in that "when-I-was-a-kid" mode also more and more lately, that's the bad news. The good news though is at least we can still remember those stories (well SOME of them anyway), right?

I had a buddy with some weekend property in West (BG) Virginia, and he had the same sweet deal. He even had a gas-powered refrigerator.

Hey. Just kidding.

Deuces. With Overdrive Transmissions. At 40 Paces.

What was that about, FrankUSMC; do you know?

That's a smart approach. And if I was smart I'd use my camera phone more to document the "before/ existing" components of a project before taking it apart and then later trying to remember how it all went back together. There's only one problem though with this idea: - I'm not smart. That's...

$200.00!! You are KILLING me with that story. The guy gave it away!

You sure know how to pick 'em! I'd say that you "done good". :beer:

That's some straight-grained good diameter lumber; that would mill up nice: tulip poplar?

Golly. Your "backyard" there has to be one of the Top 10 prettiest places in the whole wide world. That's something right there! Wow.

Wow. That is museum quality; real nice. [thumbzup]

I sure do agree with you there, marchplumber. It looks like nothing but just pure slender wing, amazing that it carries payload to boot. That is one beautiful airframe.