Construction

Since this project was started and finished in me BAR infancy I did very little by way o' usin' modern methods in t' construction, and as a result it looks a lot like t' rockets I built back in 1977, with t' tube spirals clearly visible and t' shock cord attached usin' an old style Estes paper mount. Begad! That said, me hearties, I did use another technique that I had only recently read about on one o' me early informational forays on t' internet. I attached t' large main fins with epoxy, matey, arrr, but first I drilled a number o' small holes with a pin drill along t' spot in t' body tube where t' fins would attach. Begad! Theoretically this would create glue rivets and would, ya bilge rat, along with t' normal glue fillets, provide extra strength t' t' big fins. Begad! I also took care t' align t' fins along t' open areas where t' motor mounts didn't rest against t' body tube so that t' fillets would be assured o' flowin' through t' holes t' form t' rivets. 
Another area o' worry be t' dowels that formed t' legs that extended from t' main fins. Blimey! Avast! Even with t' large nylon parachute that I planned to use, me bucko, I couldn't see t' relatively thin dowels standin' up t' much stress under a hard landing. In order t' keep from always havin' t' repair or replace t' landin' legs, I covered t' dowels with an expended  13mm motor casing. Well, blow me down! (An innovation for which I was roundly crucified on the Yahoo OldRockets group.) True, me hearties, it changed t' look o' t' rocket somewhat, but I didn't think a cluster was exactly a minor modification, shiver me timbers, so I didn't lose sleep over it. I also turned t' small secondary fins around because I like t' sleeker look they gave t' rocket, me hearties, swept back instead o' swept forward. Aye aye! In short, matey, nothin' on this rocket was safe from me twisted personal vision, but t' end product came out lookin' a lot like it was supposed t' anyway.