[NeilBlanchard]

I now have three big pieces totaling 6'-2" long, and the time has come to glue two of them together!



When I placed the firewall piece on the driver's piece, I discovered what could have been a major problem: the driver's piece is warped (about 1/2-3/4") but since it still had not fully dried, I was able to use some plywood and a strap to clamp it together, along with some weights (including a 60 pound bag of cement and a large bucket of sand) and I managed to closed the gap enough -- whew!



I'm going to have to build a platform and place it nose down and stack the layers on individually from now on, so that they will all be flat. I also figured out an issue I had with figuring on the actual cutting bit size in the g-code -- it was rounding up so there ending up being "extra" material all around the piece.

I *thought* this would be a good thing to allow for some errors, but what I did not anticipate is that the jigsaw joints don't fit together very well, and the outer piece gets spread apart and it opens up the surfaces. I'll have to glue them later -- and all the sheets I cut from now on will have proper fitting jigsaw joints.

And my neighbors can now see what I've been working on.