If you want it like downtown - take it downtown.

-- Scott Gassaway

Dave

"Think garden tractor, not space shuttle" - Mark Fredericks

Dont fix problems you dont have.

Why don't you take up golfing?

"Paint your wheel pants one color!"

This was before I had ever flown my 7a and I asked why? "So they are easier to fix when you damage them". Didn't understand until two years of flying, I landed in really long grass and damaged my main right pant. Only had to redo one color!

Wisdom from Paul Dye.

Buy a QB kit...:)

"Do something everyday".

Bevan

"When you get to a part of the build that has you totally stumped, take your wife out to dinner. Chances are you've been spending too much time thinking about the plane and not enough time thinking about your wife."

That one worked really well for me.

The other one that has always been at the forefront of my mind is:
"If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. If it doesn't feel right, it isn't. Come back to it later when you are in a better frame of mind."
I followed that advice pretty frequently and it often saved me destroyed or damaged parts, or allowed me to see a better way to do things. Sometimes getting away from the project is far more productive than continuing to work on it.

"Touch something on the project every day, even it it's just putting clecos back in the bucket".

"Decide if you're building a show plane or a go plane".

From Pierre Smith's VAF signature:
It's never skill or craftsmanship that completes airplanes, it's the will to do so.

This has given the the personal fortitude to continue on with my build.