Houston, We Have Walls!!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:09 pmHey Folks,
As bad weather looms across West Tennessee, I decided to stay off the dirtbike this weekend and do some work on my Teardrop/Cycle Hauler. With the floor finally completed, I went to Home Depot and picked up a piece of 1/2" Sandelply Plywood to make my profile template. I managed to loft the coordinates as provided in Steve Wolverton's cowper plans. I traced out the profile to my liking and took my Jigsaw and cut the profile out being careful to stay outside the lines. As soon as I finished with the Jigsaw, It was time to get out my new Belt Sander and begin shaping the template to it's final shape. After lots of standing back and eyeballing the shape, I got to where I liked the overall appearence.
I then laid out the template on my sawhorses and laid down my first sheet of 3/4 Baltic Birch Plywood on top. I got out my router and installed my flush trim bit and began routing out the first wall. The router quickly made work of the plywood and then it was time to lay out the second piece of Baltic Birch for the other wall. I finished it up and laid out both walls and clamped them together and took the belt sander and shaped and smoothed out both walls.
Here's some pics of my freshly routed walls.
Can I get some opinons on how the profile looks to you guys? This is my first build ever and I value you guy's input.
As bad weather looms across West Tennessee, I decided to stay off the dirtbike this weekend and do some work on my Teardrop/Cycle Hauler. With the floor finally completed, I went to Home Depot and picked up a piece of 1/2" Sandelply Plywood to make my profile template. I managed to loft the coordinates as provided in Steve Wolverton's cowper plans. I traced out the profile to my liking and took my Jigsaw and cut the profile out being careful to stay outside the lines. As soon as I finished with the Jigsaw, It was time to get out my new Belt Sander and begin shaping the template to it's final shape. After lots of standing back and eyeballing the shape, I got to where I liked the overall appearence.
I then laid out the template on my sawhorses and laid down my first sheet of 3/4 Baltic Birch Plywood on top. I got out my router and installed my flush trim bit and began routing out the first wall. The router quickly made work of the plywood and then it was time to lay out the second piece of Baltic Birch for the other wall. I finished it up and laid out both walls and clamped them together and took the belt sander and shaped and smoothed out both walls.
Here's some pics of my freshly routed walls.
Can I get some opinons on how the profile looks to you guys? This is my first build ever and I value you guy's input.
Anyway, thanks for the positive encouragement. Now I just have to figure out how to mount the walls to the subfloor using MadJack's method with the angle irons. 
It is on most of the day and I read every thread, say hi to almost all Newbies and eventually tease everyone brave enough to post. Consider your self teased. 
