Getting rigged

In between bouts of deck and cockpit sanding, I've begun getting my mast sorted.

First, make a pattern to cut in the t-ball plates:

Here's the top holes cut, I need to wait and assemble the mast before cutting the lower sets since they pass through the sleeve joins: 

Making some tooling for the spreader brackets: 

...and gluing up one side of the lower spreader bracket: 

I've made the parts that attach to the spreader already (no pics yet), and I need to repeat 3 times the bracket process shown above to have the parts ready to assemble.

Can you tell I like these kinds of projects more than the glassing, filling, sanding, filling, sanding?

My plan is to do a rig measure when the deck is finished and I push the boat outside to flip it, so I need to have both jobs done at the same time. So there's my excuse to take the odd break from the cockpit sanding...