Actual shop hours?
First time RV-8 slow-build.
99% of the time solo.
Started early 2012, working mainly on weekdays off work (had irregular working shifts).
Very rarely on weekends.
I suffered two, 1 year breaks due to changing continents and professional duties.
Years and months of building time can be irrelevant to some point.
Between working on weekends only or building full-time, building from their homes or further away, building simple or complex, many factors will impact calendar lenght.
From December last year, I took the liberty to take a sabaticcal to work full-time on getting the project to flying status. (note that I didn't mention complete, as it never is...
)
I keep a build time log, not as accurate as a flying logbook but close enough.
To date, I'm at 1925 hours shop time in 715 working sessions. That's 2.7 hours per workday on average.
That's
not including study, VAF, research, planing, etc. which is considerable.
I would like to be flying yesterday of course, but I resist temptation to rush anything prefering to do my best to a acheive a best practice standard or better.
I understand that 2500 - 3000 hours are common build time for a 7 or 8 model?
It would be informative, to learn from those who did keep a time log of their build, to have an their actual build hours.
From there, one could extrapolate the calendar lenght required according to their work availabilities.
Passion, Perseverance and Patience are my 3 "P"s
Keep pounding, etc...!!!