Trails in the Sand new updates 9-28-11

[Alan and Lianna]

Well after 4 weeks of work, the teardrop is taking shape. I decided it was time to post some pictures. The rest are in the album.

Alan

[danlott]

Welcome to the forum. Looks like your are well on your way. Post lots of pictures.

Dan

[grizz]

Welcome, and very tidy build you have there.

[Rigsby]

Very neat, looks like quality wood too.

[starleen2]

I see ya' hooked by a rental - way to go! Now it will inspire you to get yours finished

[greekspeedoman]

What a strong start. I look forward to more additions to your build.

[Alan and Lianna]

I worked on the lower Galley Cabinet Facing today, we drew it up last night

And I cut out the openings this morning

And test fitted it in place. I know it looks like it is in backwards, but when we set it up we put the bulkhead in backwards, we will correct upon final assembly.


Alan

[YuGun]

Very beautiful trailer.
ı like it. Take it easy.

[Alan and Lianna]

After some practice cuts with my wobble dado blade

I cut out the sliding door channels

then I cut the doors to fit

and added some finger holes.

I placed the doors on another piece, hoping to reduce tearout on the back side, but still had some. I think next time I will drill half way through, flip it over and finish drilling from the other side.


Alan

[teardrop_focus]

Nice work on the galley!


Good-looking build.

[grizz]

That is seriously neat.

I have miles of tearout, but fortunately I was able to camouflage most of it

You seem to have maximised the galley cabinet space. Well done.

[Alan and Lianna]

We had too much of a gap where the side wall fits into the trailer so we cut 3/4" pieces of wood and filled in with liquid nails. We made a piece that was 1/16" deeper to push the wood down to the correct depth.

We drilled pocket holes every 12" along the edge of the floor.


Checked pocket hole screw length and decided that 1 1/2" worked best.


We had to run the wiring for the exterior lights before gluing the interior skin

Now we glued the interior skin onto the side wall, using NTPPW (new technology- potted plant weights)

We added few more clamps. Can you really ever have too many of these?

We removed the bondo from this gap and added a trough for the wiring.

Decided to use screws to hold the skin on since we are going to paint the walls. Oh, and apparently we did NOT have too many clamps-actually ran out

We are using spline joints to join the 2 side walls. After using the router to cut 1/8" spine joints, we are testing the fit-perfect.

We cut 1/8" by 15/16" splines to fit into spline joints.

After 4 weeks of working in the hot, south TX sun, fellow teardroppers, Big-D, Brandi, Richard & Diane offered us a huge garage space to finish our build, so we are packed up and ready to move.

We are so appreciative for this gracious gesture. Without proper shelter, we have been building and storing all our work and supplies in our living room, kitchen, hall & bedrooms (as you can see from previous pics)

Lianna & Alan

[Alan and Lianna]

What a day! We got up early and got dressed for work.

We skinned the galley walls, cut the hatch sides, ran some wires, glued some spars, recut and refit some pieces, lost a piece?, epoxied some wood, drilled, screwed, counter sunk, routered, glued, clamped, hammered, and finally assembled the walls on the trailer for good..



We worked up till midnight, so needless to say we are a too whooped to give a really good update, but posted some more pictures in the album

Alan and Lianna

[stomperxj]

Lookin great guys. Awesome progress!

[Alan and Lianna]

After coating all the walls with epoxy, we filled in the voids, sanded smooth and applied a coat of KILZ primer.

We framed the hatch.

Then we skinned the hatch interior.

And on my sliding doors, the lower track was bowed in, so I cut a spacer that once wedged in place would hold it straight.


Alan and Lianna