SIXTOTWO wrote:I'm stealing your idea of writing the verses on the ribs!!! Hope you don't mind!! God gave us the $$ (literally) to do this build so what a great way to honour Him in this way. Thanks!!
God is good!
Anyway...your post inspired me to catch up on our build thread...since OCTober??!! we have continued to plug away...but were distracted by weddings, and Thanksgiving and Christmas and such... tho we kept lurking! For our anniversary the end of October we headed up the road and met with Grant from L'il Bear & purchased most of the trim and accessories we'd need to complete the tear.
We have routed & glued the "sub-roof" on...& coated the edges with 3 coats of CPES.
Weekend weather allowed us to work occasionally in Jan/Feb as we started working on windows and doors. We hate doors!! The biggest problem we have had is that after a week or two goes by...we roll the trailer out...sort of "unpack" what we were doin' and spend long minutes (hours) just looking....tryin' to remember what we were doing and what we were
thinking when we did it this way!
So now the windows are cut & dry fitted, & opening edges then sealed with CPES. We've left the windows out for now as we dryfitted the doors.
After dryfitting the doors, we've removed all the trim and are nearing the end of multiple coats of CPES on all the edges of the doors and the openings. Cold weather has slowed that process down as we are primarily working outside. The doors themselves have had a couple coats of satin finish applied to the inside and a final coat of CPES followed by multiple coats of varnish on the outside.
On rainy days Leo has been making his way through some electrical...so far so good!
We installed a piano hinge on the raceway for easy access...
We have been working on wooden trim for weeks and weeks! Leo is a router newbie...and has had great success using a bottom bearing bit for all our applications so far. We were able to successfully mount and rout the top edge of the trim..but then....despite multiple attempts and using a router fence we ruined several pieces of trim trying to route the lower edge. Finally, I have to admit, we took the pieces, with top edge routed, to a friend of ours who has a cabinet shop, who, used his mojo to "make it so"!
We then started the process of multiple coats of CPES followed by multiple coats of varnish to all sides except for the face of the trim. We won't do the face until we've installed the trim, countersunk and plugged the screws.
We've started the hatch. Here's Leo marking the template for the hatch ribs.
And his "table sander" to smooth the template. We'll use this one to rout the addl ribs.
Whew!! All caught up! I'll try to post more regularly...we've got exciting stuff coming up! Hope to have her all done...well, campable! in time for the Dam Gathering first weekend in May!
Mark (& Cindi) 
