Rage of Firebird: Construction

Began to hack and grind today! When we went over to choose our blanks (the block of wood that looks like a door wedge) The instructor laid out the blocks after weighing each of them. "86 grams" he called. My hand was the first on that table to grab that blank (hehe). Then a 100 gram one came by and I was sad (but 86 grams is a heavy blank for Balsa). I've been working on it today, and what you see in the following picture is -30 grams already! Pics and snippets of Rage Of Firebird:

Images taken January 25th, 2007