Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

by **Oldragbaggers** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:49 pm

The woodworking on your teardrop is just beautiful. I love your choice of curtain material. It is striking against the light wood and the design elements on the fabric are really interesting.

Excellent work. You will no doubt have gawkers everywhere you go with that gorgeous trailer.

by **DMcCam** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:03 am

Vedette wrote:Well Merry Christmas Dave & Lisa
Have been watching you build........VERY NICE JOB!
We have been working along in a parallel time frame. Got to lay down on our matress with doors doors closed on Christmas Eve.
Sandi has had our curtains, linens, comforter, etc, made for months now, with hopes that I would have our TD ready for one fall camping trip. Never happened!
But, we are raring to go for the Spring! And can't wait to personally meet all you nice folks here on the Forum.
We too hope to make the Dam Gathering our first Long Maiden Voyage??? Only thing that might hold us back will be the birth of our third Gradchild Apr. 26/13.
Sandi wants to stay home for a few days after.....so we might get off to a late start.
Maybe someone will save us a spot for "Miss Piggy"?????
Can't wait to meet you guys.
Good Roads
Brian & Sandi

Hi Brian, Thank you Sir! We've decided to join everyone at the Dam Gathering this year too. It will be a very great pleasure to meet you and Sandi.

And to see your Fantastic 'Miss Piggy'!

Vindi_andy wrote:Have just come back to this site after over a year away and gone through your build in one sitting. It is truly amazing. If mine turns out half as good as this I will be pleased.

Hi Andy, Good to have you back and thank you for your kindness Sir! I'm sure your build will be perfect for you as ours will work for us. :thumbsup:

Happy building.

Oldragbaggers wrote:The woodworking on your teardrop is just beautiful. I love your choice of curtain material. It is striking against the light wood and the design elements on the fabric are really interesting.
Excellent work. You will no doubt have gawkers everywhere you go with that gorgeous trailer.

Hi ya Becky! Great to hear from you and thank you dear Lady! I read on your build thread that you're also waiting for spring or at least warmer temps!

Me too!!! The curtain material was a lucky find, we haven't seen anything like it since in the fabric store. We used it as a foil for the bedding accept the sheets. My Mom had a dark blue queen bed sheet set in storage and offered to donate them to the cause...she's great. So it's to be light wood, tans, warm browns and dark blue. Should be nice an cozy.

Hopefully we'll get back to work in a month or so. Thank you all for following our build.

All the best,

Dave

by **clintstuckless** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:58 pm

Absolutly brilliant and beautiful design.

Would you be willing to share the design files (if you have them) Especially the CAD or CNC files.

Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful work done on this unit.

by **clintstuckless** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 12:41 pm

DMcCam wrote:
Z3R0 wrote:Wow this is extremely impressive. Great job man. I feel like I'm undercutting a lot with my build after seeing this. Awesome build, giving lots of inspiration out!

Thank you very much Z3RO!

CliffinGA wrote:Dave its looking great bud and can't wait to see it finished! Hope you will be out camping in it soon! Cliff

Hey Cliff buddy, glad to hear from you! It looks like we'll be hitting is hard this coming spring for sure!

Rudyjr wrote:Dave, I have not been able to log onto the site for a while but I have been following along, all I can say is WOW. Nice job keep up the good work, Jim

Thank you Jim Sir!!!

With all the winter prep around the house I haven't got very much done on the AT. We did get the first of the interior decorating element installed...the curtains are in!!!

Passenger door curtains from the outside.

Driver's curtains from the inside.

It's likely going to be slow from here on till spring if we get our normal winter weather.

Thank you all for your continued support, it means a lot.

All the Best,

Dave

Did you build around the matress or do you have hidden access.

by **DMcCam** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:07 pm

clintstuckless wrote:Did you build around the matress or do you have hidden access.

Hi Clintstuckless, It's a 5" foam mattress that bent easily in half and fit through the door at an angle. We then flopped the foot of the mattress down and then slid it under the cabinets. We've got 2" extra space side to side and a little more end to end. If you had smaller doors, you would just need to roll it up tight and shove it in.

All the best,

Dave

by **clintstuckless** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:02 am

DMcCam wrote:
clintstuckless wrote:Did you build around the matress or do you have hidden access.

Hi Clintstuckless, It's a 5" foam mattress that bent easily in half and fit through the door at an angle. We then flopped the foot of the mattress down and then slid it under the cabinets. We've got 2" extra space side to side and a little more end to end. If you had smaller doors, you would just need to roll it up tight and shove it in.

All the best,

Dave

I am planning to use a traditional inner-spring. Just trying to figure if i need to build around or make some kind of mattress hatch

by **DMcCam** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:37 pm

A few builders have used inner spring mattress's and have had to make special doors and such. There are several reasons that most use the foam type though. They are typically thinner - 5" VS 8", lighter weight, and can be shoved through smaller doors.

All the Best,

Dave

by **nevadatear** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:09 pm

Its getting warm dave. Only 6 wks to the dam!

by **DMcCam** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:27 pm

Hi Debbie, Yep, it's time to get back to it especially if we're to make the gathering with a finished trailer. :shock:

Cheers,

Dave

by **down under tech** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:54 pm

Dave: Go, Go. Go Man. It was a beautiful day in my neighborhood today. How was the weather in your town?
I want to see your creation very soon you know.