Note:
Keep the dots within half the area
of the paper. You can crease the paper in the middle, open out and
then keep the dots on one side of the crease.
Note: If you have trouble tracing due to dark paper or insufficient light... With a needle, poke holes through the 2 sheets of paper, at the corners of the shapes. Be careful not to let them shift! Then, after tearing the paper in half, rule lines between the pin-holes on the blank sheet.
Note: A thin gray line has been added to show where the crease is.
Note: It's just too tricky to tape it all down in one go!
Note: The spar won't crease sharp because of all the sticky tape, but pinch firmly anyway.
Bear in mind that most of the steps below are more easily done on a table-top. With the vertical spar up against one edge of the table-top. To keep the bit you are working on flat!
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