Thanks Guys. Yeah, I'm normally pretty careful with wet sanding since I made this mistake on my first ever build. It's repaired now, not quite perfect, but I'm over trying for that now. I just want to see how the damn thing plays.

AdamC, thanks for that, I appreciate your kind words. Certainly helps with motivation. I always try and share my mistakes, I'm by no means an expert at this game and the best thing about this forum is the shared knowledge base.

I'm pretty much ready to go with Protoype 2 - which should hopefully happen a lot more quickly than this one has. I'm still within my goal of completing V1 in a year, but that deadline is fast approaching. I just want to be sure of the changes I've made to the templates before I get them cut. At this stage I will probably source a piece of Camphor Laurel for the next one as its readily available here, hopefully it'll be a bit more stable than this piece of stringy bark.