I finally broke down and decided to build the wing stand.  I had the right wing laying upside down on top of a table and heavy blanket.  Anytime I am building a jig or stand, I usually get impatient as this activity as it does not feel like I am progressing towards the completion of the plane.  I thought this would take me an hour or two, but as I typically underestimate, I spent a little over 6 hrs on this dang thing.  By the time you get all the hardware and tools rounded up, you have more than a couple of hours in a simple structure such as this wing stand.

It is a good thing that precision is not required on the wing stand!!!  Below you can see the side of the stand to hold the leading edge.  I used a leading edge rib to draw out the shape of the wing.  I was generous when cutting out this profile.  I made the cutout in the neighborhood of 3/16" or so larger around the whole rib to allow for padding.

To pad around the rib template, I used some refrigerant line insulation I had left over from my garage heat pump installation.  I just cut it open and slipped it over the fiberboard.  The shape of the insulation tube actually held it in place on the fiberboard.

Van's tells you to cut a 3/4" deep notch to keep the main spar from slipping off the stand.  I cut the notch about 8" wide .  Again, I used some refrigerant line insulation to pad the spar end of the stand.

Whenever I was able to, I re-used lumber laying around the garage.  About the only thing I salvaged from the larger wing crate was this 3 foot section of lumber that formed the side of the crate.  I think that the painted dollar sign says it all.  Here sits a lot of cash!!!

After Tami got home from Minnesota today, I had her help me move the wing to the wing stand.  I positioned the wing such that the outboard edge of the wing rested in the stand at a rib so that the structure wasn't being held only by the skin.  I don't want any deformities....

After the wing was in the stand, it became extremely mobile.  I wheeled my recently (almost complete) wing structure out to the driveway.  About every car that drove by had the "bobble head" thing going on.  I chuckle about living in this small town as people we don't even know yet stop and talk to my wife at her place of employment ask her what her eccentric husband is building in the garage.  The same questions pop up that I am sure everyone else who is building is getting asked; "Do you really plan on flying in it?"  NO>>>  I am just going to spend 2000+ hours building it so someone else can fly it...  Here's your sign!!!

This side looks better....  It almost looks like a completed structure.

I am just getting carried away with the camera here.

I cut a tub and tile sponge in half and stuck it down at the very leading edge to further cushion the wing in the stand.