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  1. Just print at 100% at a print shop should be like 20-30 bucks total with a tube to out your plans in. Use a thin corrugated cardboard for templates. Something you don’t have to cut through twice. Cut your templates out with extra paper on the seams and tape to cardboard and cut along the line. Wish someone told me these little things when I started my first build. Don’t waste time or effort hot cutting anything. Icarex and Mylar doesn’t need it, for nylon and Dacron just burn the edges with a lighter or run it against a soldering iron. Pay attention to your machine tension. Always test it on 6 inches of fabric before you sew your sail. Make sure the fabric is folded over double and has seams stick so you can dial in the tension before you sew your sail. If your sewing through icarex, nylon, and Dacron at the same time make the same layers, including seam stick and test. You’re probably going to need to adjust your bobbin tension for Dacron. Make sure you have a lot of needles you will be changing them every time your machine makes a different noise, seam stick gunks up the needle and you will miss stitches. Check your bobbin before every seam, you run out halfway through and you gotta go either rip out the whole seam of try and start it from where you ran out of bobbin. Have fun building, take your time and don’t get frustrated it’s a relaxing hobby. And when you tie bridles. Give it 7 adjustment points by the spine and by the top APA and set it to the middle then do measurements on the bridle. You’ll thank yourself at the flying field. Oh and tie off your stitches and burn them as you work so you don’t forget at the end.
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