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A Table You Could Jig On.

 With the wings pretty much wrapped up it was time to start in earnest on the metal portions of the build. I figured it would be best to start small and work my way up to the fuselage. This meant starting on the tail surfaces. Before I could do that, however, I needed a large, flat, level surface to lay everything out on. Since the fuselage will also need a large, flat, level surface to build on and I don't want to build two tables, the jig table will be quite large. How large? 4 feet wide and 14.5 feet long. This will give me enough room to lay out the full fuselage with jig blocks around the edges and still have space to walk around one end of the table.

Once the fuselage is tack welded I won't need the full 14+ feet of table, so I built it to be reconfigured into a smaller, 4x8 foot table for jigging out things like landing gear.

Apparently I didn't take any pictures of the table, but here is the CAD drawing I made for it. The frame is made from 2x4. There is a pair of outer frames that make up most of the table and an inner frame that spans the joint between the two outer frames. When I want to reconfigure to the 4'x8' table everything in green will be removed and used for other projects.

Cheyenne had some pictures from our garage sale that show the gist of the jig table. This picture is of the seam where the table can split apart. It is supported by a couple 2x4 legs around the perimeter and my two adjustable sawhorses.
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