making an american style line touch fighter kite, the tangler. actually i reduced the template size of the tangler about 5-6% using a photo copy machine. the bow length of the reduced size template is about 23.5" long. which is shorter by slightly more than 1" than the original tangler.
to cut the skin material of the kite, whether it's paper or like in the video a gift wrap plastic film, i first make a template of the shape of the kite. i make the template from a used priority postal box, it's thin cardboard, but quite stiff. i lay the skin material on my glass work surface and place the template on it and cut with a single edge razor around the perimeter of the template,
br8080 5 months ago