Here is a photo of the jig I use. Seems to work fairly well.. Sorry I couldn't resist!

Here is a photo of the jig I use. Seems to work fairly well.. Sorry I couldn't resist!

That's funny! 

I have an old Robart incidence meter, works decent for setting the thrust line.

I generally,

1) Mount the motor,
2) check the thrust line to wing incidence, adjust as needed
3) set the horizontal tail to the wing
4) check the tail to the thrust line as a check
5) use a string to check the centerlines - I switched to SpiderWire because it has no stretch and I had some.

But I still rely on my eyeballs and design my fuselages with the stab, motor mounts and wing related to a machined edge ( the top ). Put a  hollowed to .125" carved block top on and you should be good.

I'd bet the majority of guys build that way.

Here is a photo of the jig I use. Seems to work fairly well..

 Same here, eyeball and tape measure.

I used the tape measure technique only to find that if not very careful and I bumped the stab, it got out of alignment. With the two rods, it stays in one place, aligned, as it dries.

 That's the "trick" Ty, once you get things set you have to leave out the step where you bump it.

WHO's Simple ?