Cutting Day 1

So after taking a week to contemplate cutting i finally decided to start cutting this week. Day one saw a lot less progress than i initially thought we would of made however towards the end of the day we were rocketing along. Which was cut short by my awesome assistant Tim having to head to work.

We managed to cut out panels M and N which totals 40 panels. Tim and I laid the fabric to the length of the two panels and cut the sheet to length. This was repeated 5 times per colour to create 20 sheets which we then cut the M and N panels in sets of 10 layers.
We also managed to cut out 17/20 lengths for panels L and K which will be the last double panel length until we get into the smaller C,B,A panels which i plan on using the lengths which had defects that would of either visually affected it or structurally towards the end of its life.  Hopefully the smaller panels will fit around the variety of defects i found which was mostly on the black.

Sadly i didn't measure the length of fabric which has been benched for now but it was about 8 meters however majority of this is still salvageable.

The team over in Australia are pushing through sewing up Barbs 60k at the moment which is pushing me to make my own progress. Its busy times at the moment for XLTA Australia with one balloon at the final stages, another having trouble with Gores but has a weekend planned to push some progress and a couple back either in the planning/cutting stages.

Tomorrow for me however brings Neil in to hopefully help me for another 5 or 6 hours which will no doubt help see some more garbage bags filled with fully cut panels and my cutting checklist slightly more fulfilled.