I spent some time cutting geodetic braces. I stacked five of the thin capstrips, laid out the parts along them, and cut them with the bandsaw. I now have enough parts to make half a dozen more ribs. It’s slow going with the geodetic capstrip, because each one has to make three passes through the spindle sander to shave them down to 3/32″ Holy crap that’s tedious. I may try using the table saw when the thin strip rip jig arrives. Even if I can get them close enough to just make a single pass on the sander it would be a huge improvement.
I tried a different technique for applying the glue. First I dry-fit all of the parts to make sure I didn’t end up with a brace with glue all over it that needed to be trimmed. I marked the top and bottom capstrips with a pencil to indicate where the groove needs to be glued. Then I pulled them out of the jig and used a trimmed-down popsicle stick to apply epoxy to the grooves. Back into the jig, with the front and rearmost vertical pieces in place since those are impossible to install with the capstrips in the jig. Then I proceeded as usual, installing all the other parts with epoxy. It worked like a charm, and resulted in no glue running down where I didn’t want it. We’ll see how this rib looks when I pull it out of the jig tomorrow… and we’ll see how closely it matches the first one. In theory they should be identical, but I’ve never done this before, so…