American Kitefliers Association

Kevin Sanders was gracious enough to share the directions for his Shard kite on Kitebuilders.com forum.
He had presented this kite several years ago at Ft Worden Kietemakers Retreat.  I was unable to take the class due to time constraints.

However, with his old class directions I was able to make a new kite!  I had to use some TLAR, as there were/are no actual plans.  All the bits and pieces were referenced to the things he had in his kits.  Actually the building methods, materials, etc.  were a bit different in each kite.

I have made 4, now.  Two half size kites, and one 100% size.  The fourth is a 1.80% size, sort of.  I changed the aspect ratio on the smaller and larger sized kites from the original.

Here are some photos...in reverse order of when I made them. 
First the 1.8%   (Edit:  Looks like you will need to click on the photo of this one to view the entire picture.  Sorry about that.)



and the 100% version 


And the two half size versions.