For The Gods see everywhere.....
That kind of work makes me feel good about my kind of work.
I took some grief about the 6.5 years it took me to carefully put SuzieQ together, back in The Slow Build days. Having worked on airplanes for years, I knew what a well-constructed airplane should look like. I saw some RVs being put together at the same time that were a little.....well, unnerving: not how I would have done things. I also saw things coming out of Wichita that were not like I would have done it. As it is, I have a straight, good-looking, well-built RV-4 that flew hands-off the first flight. Elevator perfectly in line with the horizontal. Is everything perfect? No; but the minor imperfections have not affected how the airplane flies or how it looks.
I have to just amaze myself when I am doing my Condition Inspections how well I did all those years ago. Makes me smile! How did I know how to do that?
If I may quote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from his poem (on my mind during my build....)
The Builders:
Truly shape and fashion these;
Leave no yawning gaps between;
Think not, because no man sees,
Such things will remain unseen.
In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the Gods see everywhere.
Those words should be hanging in every shop and on every Builder's mind.....