I recently finished refurbishing my 12 inch F5 scope and thought I would share a few photos of the finished product. These were taken at the ASV's recent Messier star party. The scope used to be in a truss configuration but I became tired of the assembly disassembly process. The tube is made of 3 layers of 1.5 mm hoop pine ply using the technique Dave Gault first described here:
http://web.archive.org/web/201012021...aveg/Tube.html
The scope has a full thickness mirror I made myself many years ago.
The other scope in the pictures is my son's 8 inch F6. We built this together and it's been probably my most used instrument.
Rod