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Howdy folks....

I'm building this Carden 40% for John Wondra.... He was good enough at Tucson to walk away with a kit! Thanks to Carden for donating the prizes too!

Many of you may know me as the 3D Foamy guy.... I've been just enjoying flying and family since JohnVH bought the business, and also doing alot of building. I'm doing it for hire in my free time.... so If you like what you see here, let your friends know.

So on with the build!

First of all.... This is a community build. I REALLY want to hear from you if you have a cool idea for a change, or a better way to do it. This is the first Carden I have built.... so please type away!

First Impressions.... I love the simplicity of the Carden kit. They lack any laser or CNC cutting, but that frees up my creativity to "kit Bash" as we used to call it. I calipered each part to redraw in cad for the lightning holes.... and was VERY surprised that the precut plywood parts commonly measured to the tune of 7.0005 and 9.001, and 3.0000.... I was very impressed at that. so even though it lacks the burned signature of a laser... Dennis is the man when it comes to table saws!

I build on a custom building table that has 16 jack screws on the bottom to get everything perfectly level. I made a custom set of aluminum jigs that are bolted to the table with 1/4-20 bolts to align the top and bottom of the stick sides. They all get aligned over the plans with an aluminum level and locked in place. Both sides end up exactly the same this way.


There are going to be some really cool stuff going on in this build.... I've got a long list of upgrades and mods that are gonna get pullout out. It's an all out bling airplane for John. He's working hard to take on Kyle Wyoshnis this year in IMAC...