Well I got back from dads with his draw knife.
For those of you youngsters scratching yer heads wondering what a draw knife is, the first pic is of an old belguim draw knife dad let me borrow.
The cool thing about using a draw knife on these struts is that more than likely thats what the craftsmen used to shape the struts on the original airplane.
As you can see a draw knife is basically an 8 inch wide hand plane but uses 2 handles to "Draw" it to you and makes for some really nice curly cues hehehe
As you can see from the second picture I got the shape pretty close just need to spend some time hand sanding the edges in so that they are all even. From the end view it looks thicker than it actually is.
For the most part it is a knife edge but I didnt want to go all the way to the end and chance taking a large hunk out
