Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

I'm designing a benroy TD with wood sides, PMF roof. Does anyone have links to photos of how I can design the exterior walls to look nice with 4x8 sheet goods? My TD wall will be 9' long and 54" tall. I'm not so worried about the look of the 54" dimension as a bottom trim board can easily dress that up. I'm more interested in photos of woodies that run a splice vertically up the wall. I've seen some creative inlays to stretch the plywood. Two species of wood would be OK. Thanks... Tim

In Steve Fredrick's Teardrop Shop Manual, he shows how to create stretched sandwiched woodie walls that are gorgeous. It's pages 27-48.

I'm sure this 'drop was done using his technique:



I think this is one of Steve's builds here:

http://www.mikenchell.com/Lil_Diner_2_P ... 20050.html



Tony

I'm heading in same direction. For images, you can look in hall of fame here. I googled "teardrop trailers woody" and images and a lot. I plan to do a perimeter trim board, and verticals adjacent to door, plus one 4' behind door to cover seam.
Just starting on drawings.

Thanks Tony and Quetico! That helps. Just took out the supplies to start my walls for #2. Then I realized all the 1X lumber I bought a month ago is warped all to hell and would be a nightmare to try to sandwich inside the walls. I just went to Menards.com and found they sell 3/4 x 5 x 10 sheets of plywood. It's very pricey, almost a hundred bucks a sheet, but, it just might be the ticket to simplify this build and end up with a stronger wall. Because it's special order shipping adds 20 bucks. I have to pay that anywho for the 1/8" lauan for the roof and ceiling. It's more of a packaging charge and on TD #1 I got four sheets of 4x9 plywood T111 and a full sheet of 1 1/2 blue rigid foam as packaging material! A few edge dents/cracks didn't matter.

Packaging material is great. I built a worktable completely out of osb and 2x4's from packaging crates. I did buy a solid 4x8 piece to use as a top though.

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