Well, I spent about another 4 hours on the lousy 8' brake....and officially gave up. I was bowing in too many directions to get a good enough bend for my spars. If there is something a little smaller to bend, then I could use it. Anyway, my brother-in-law Josh has a 10' brake at his work that I can use. So tonight I got back to the task of actually building an airplane. I began to rough cut the spars.