Entry: Fri Jan 27 2023

I took an 1/8" roundover bit to the standard kitset stringers. Hitting one side (front and back) I lost 0.10 oz/ft... Only a half pound over the ~73 feet of stringer materials.. when rounding over all 4 sides I'd lose a little over a pound out of the tail. I tried crushing and bending the stringer and it didn't seem to lose strength so I upped the ante and decided to shave the bottom edge of the stringer off. Which would result in losing 2.5 pounds. I checked the 1 foot piece and it still had a decent bit of resistence to bending but when it let go it did so spectacularly lol. I turned it around in the vice and hit it with a hammer ~5 inches away and it didn't budge.

I think I will use the 1/8 roundover bit, not for weight savings but just to not have a hard 90° edge pushing on the fabric