So today's progress....
I did a dry run with the scope to make sure it was all going to go together as planned. Happily everything fits together beautifully and I experimented sitting at the scope and using it at various altitudes and its very comfortable.
After the dry run I glued up the rocker box ensuring it is nice and square.
In the first pic showing the inside of the rocker you can see a side brace I've made to help strengthen the tops of the cradle (good suggestion mental
). I made cutouts in the corners of this brace to allow routing of cables.
I also did a stain and varnish test run on some offcuts today, we'll see how they look tomorrow
Here are some pics
Dave.