So I am getting married this summer, and what better to honeymoon in than a tear drop camper? That's what we think at least. If you don't get the name by now, this camper is a sort of arc and there is a certain covenant that is going along with it.
It all started when I proposed to my fiancee. I was thinking about what we might do for a honeymoon, and we were thinking that a road trip west might be a good idea since neither of us have been sightseeing out there. However, the idea of paying to spend a night in a hotel every day didn't seem like a good idea to me. I looked into renting a camper, but the rates were not much better, plus there was nothing in my area. Then I saw a DIY teardrop and thought that I could pull it off. After a lot of research, some more research, and developing plans of my own, we have finally started working on our own little piece of freedom (all this while still going to college full time and prepping for a wedding).
So far our plans are to make a teardrop on a 4x8 harbor freight trailer. We plan to frame the walls with mostly 2x2s with some 2x4s mixed in (well actually we have already begun this process). To waterproof the rig we are going to use the poor man's fiberglass technique. I do not know exactly how we are going to do the galley hatch, but I have a few ideas bouncing through my head. One thing about our camper is that is will not have a curved roof. It will still retain the idea of a teardrop, but it will be angular instead (just thought it would be easier to cut the framing and not worry about bending stuff, also like the look).
I am trying to build at least a couple nights a week so that we can finish the project by May (when we are getting married). Usually we work sometime between Wednesday and Thursday, but I don't know how soon I will get to posting pics.
Feel free to ask any questions and leave comments when I am about to screw something up big time.
In the meantime here are some pictures of our progress so far.
Fiancee working hard
Best Man lending a hand
Done with the trailer
Fiancee mixing the tar
Help from a friend picking windows from the junkyard
Fixing the bed to the frame
Fiance measuring
Done for the day
Next Day: Help from the Sisters attaching the frame to interior wall Used pocket holes and polyeurethane glue
Interior wall
Holding it up just to see
Hopefully next time we wont have to lay it flat again.