First month of construction! Vertical stabilizer in progress

Suddenly one month has passed😊 

The double sided tape (3M F9460PC) was not in the shipment from Amazon on Tuesday, so I had to proceed with the horizontal stabilizer instead.

But I was able to complete a few forward steps and prepare for riveting.

The counterweight with the nutplate strip.

This is the setup to rivet the trailing edge.

I've prepared the tool from Cleaveland Aircraft Tool, by turning the set
180 degree. This tools is supposed to be used
on the trailing edge of the elevator, but I've
read that it can be used on the rudder as well.
It looks good, but I haven't tested it yet.

I've made some good progress on the vertical stabilizer (22 hours so far). It's a lot of deburring (and countersinking), and I'm constantly speculating on how to do this as efficiently as possible. So this time I tried out a few different approaches on how to reach the narrow spaces in the ribs, and came up with 3D printed disc to mount a 6" cut out of the regular scotch-brite pad on. See video below.

The "tool" ready to be tested.

The disc. It took 10 minute to construct and a hour to
print 2 pieces.

The first few steps to match drill the doubler to the rear spar.

Front spar cap match drilling.

A new tool fro angled drilling and screwing.
Also useful for deburring.

A lot of counter sinking. At least 400 holes in both
the spars.

Everything clecoed together to check that everything
is correct before priming. Also note the cradle in the
background that will be used during riveting. They will of course
stay on the floor. I just had to test them.