I decided to try to regain my working days routine where Saturday morning was building time, ignoring things like Lyft driving to try to make a little money in retirement. I'm retired, for crying out loud. Enjoy it.
So I worked in earnest on the canopy frame, and since I'd lost two of the spacing blocks, fixed the bandsaw (bought a new blade to replace the broken one) and cut new blocks then put them in place and clamped with "pony" clamps.
Although I have put the 1/8" spacer cardboard on the canopy rails, the frame does not sit entirely on them. Experience with the RV-7A tells me that the weight of the canopy will take care of this, but I changed a pony clamp to a C-clamp to keep the frame properly in place AND to get the proper 1 7/32" spacing between the front of the rollbar and the aft end of the frame, or something like that anyway.
Then I fluted the -- I don't know what you call them so I'm calling them brackets -- that sit on top of the rails to get them to follow flush the inside curve of the side rails, which probably also isn't the right word but I know what I mean even if nobody else does.
Then I deburred and primed the left side and will rivet when I'm out there again. Tomorrow probably.
