Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

by **aggie79** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:47 am

Kevin,

It's good to see you back on the build. Believe me, I understand about delays. I'm almost 2-1/2 years into my build and it still is not finished.

Take care,
Tom

by **kevingb** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:05 pm

Good intentions are always blocked by the Corp world...

Building a work bench today, I got a wild hair. Soon y'all will realize I have a warped sense of humor. I couldn't keep from keeping it simple. I had a flashback of my mullet days.

Here we are working... Business in the front

Here we are getting ready for drinks.... Party in the back

I will be building the doors and drawers while building them for teardrop...

by **YuGun** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:42 am

Wow it lokks really good..

by **kevingb** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:41 pm

Thanks YuGun...

Starting to mill the rails and stiles for the cabinet work and built some jigs to hold the sides up.

by **aggie79** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:48 am

Kevin,

Your teardrop is really coming along. It's a great feeling to get the walls stood up, isn't it!

BTW, I like your mobile workbench/bar. I also spied your new HF dust collector in the background. After my teardrop is finished, I am going to re-do our 2-car garage, so it will work better as a part-time shop. Part of that is building mobile bases for my bench tools and coming up with a dust collection system of some sort. I like your workbench design and may borrow it.

Take care,
Tom

by **kevingb** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:48 am

Tom... This is were its getting fun. Seeing walls up really helps the momentum. The workbench has been a positive addition to the family. I just can't wait to get the drawers in. I"m going to keep all my hand power tools, nail guns, blades, router bits, and brads. I also put a gang box on it to cutdown on number of extension cords. I decided to leave the top compartment open good place to put pieces while building.

I usually dont get very excited about Harbor Freight but the Dust Collector was a awesome buy. I did a ton of reasearch, just google HF Dust Collector Mods or HF Dust Collector Hod Rod. Right now I just pull it outside. With the bag filter you can see a fine dust coming off it. So the Wynn filter will be the first upgrade.

by **Facemeltingly Epic** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:18 am

Lookin' good! :thumbsup:

by **vtx1029** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:51 am

kevingb wrote:

I bought that same miter saw a few months ago! Love it! :thumbsup:

Cool build and some darn nice tools in your shop.

by **kevingb** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:51 am

Vtx...Thanks... I have really enjoyed the Hitachi, it has been pretty reliable and accurate. I had the laser aligned for a while but sumtin happend to it and cant get it to align. Dad said its because i'm left handed and adjusted it on the wrong side of the blade.

by **kevingb** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:16 pm

Well today was fun I added some dovetails maybe a little overkill but hey having fun is the main objective of building a teardrop

by **TBuilder** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:39 am

That's pretty cool! I'd wondered why more people didn't do that.

by **kevingb** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:25 am

TBuilder from other non-teardrop building experiences. If I was not using MDO plywood I wouldn't even think about doing this. Basically if the receipt for the plywood has 800 number for survey and chance to win $5000 gift card don't do it.

by **PhotoGuy** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:02 pm

Looking really good :applause:

by **kevingb** » Sat May 14, 2011 9:10 pm

Well it has been a while, with work, weather, and son getting married. I'm still making process. Although my time has been limited in the shop, I have been working on the microcontrollers. Yep, Teardrop Automation, i'm diving off the deep end.

Here are a few updates.

by **buddycraigg** » Sat May 14, 2011 9:31 pm

WOW...
I feel like I'm building a wooden tent after see what you are doing.

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