The Poet Creek Express - Foamie Hybrid

[KCStudly]

Bonnie, Thank you for the reassurance.

The other option is that I am just plain crazy.

I don't mind the extra work so much, because in the end I will be happy with it.

[GPW]

Not crazy at all eh ... just Quality oriented... teaching us all how to "Do it Right" !!!

Glad you fixed that spot !!! You know it would have been annoying laying in the trailer looking up at it thinking .... Dang !!!

[KCStudly]

Now that would make me crazy!

[Wolffarmer]

Another way to fix that spot would be to get GPW to paint a mural or something there. Nothing like covering up a mistake.



Randy

[tony.latham]

KC: I had lunch in Poet Creek campground Saturday. It is a sweet little spot. Bargamin Creek was full of little wanna-be steelhead. Slurped up black foam beetle like a kid eating popcorn in a theatre. I'm still in Elk City and will send some pics and give you a road report when I get back to Salmon. I think you'll be hard pressed to find any changes.

[GPW]

Randy, you mean like the “Moon roof” in the FS ?

KC , once we get the Big things sorted, it’s always the “little” things that become annoying after a while .... best to do as you’re doing and fix it from the get-go...

[Wolffarmer]

Something like that. Happy moon, happy clouds, happy trees.

Randy

[KCStudly]

Painting the ceiling has always been a fallback plan for if the cabin feels too dark. I can tell you that the thought of having to get the paint brush out did cross my mind a couple of times yesterday, but I haven't given up on the stain just yet. I can tell you that I should have done a better job in making the decision to use the "back" side of the sheet. There is one small area with some separation in the grain, and those rough spots that prompted me to amateurishly scratch the heck out of it with the hand block.

I do like it when I see a really well executed sky scene on a ceiling that is properly up lit.

Still working toward the stain.

KC: I had lunch in Poet Creek campground Saturday. It is a sweet little spot. Bargamin Creek was full of little wanna-be steelhead. Slurped up black foam beetle like a kid eating popcorn in a theatre. I'm still in Elk City and will send some pics and give you a road report when I get back to Salmon. I think you'll be hard pressed to find any changes.

Can't wait!!!

[KCStudly]

I’m happy again, and once more reminded of the Rod Stewart/Ron Woods song, Ooh La La.

“I wish… I… knew… what I know now… when I was younger”

I’m sure I read on here somewhere where someone swore by applying their stain first like a sealer coat, then sanding it back off, then reapplying it. I sure wish I knew who to credit for that because I’m here to tell you that I think it has given me my best result yet. Here is the ceiling after reapplying the stain.



The stain went on really nicely, and rubbed off just the same. The original sanding scratches are gone.


This is that factory flaw I mentioned. Like Cindy Crawford’s mole, it will add an alluring quality.


I did manage to create some new sanding scratches along the edge of the curb side; sort of swirly like from the palm sander. Not sure how I managed to get these just on the curb side; thought I used the same technique on both sides.


I can live with these because they are not blatantly in the field.

Took a minute and stuffed some wood filler into the screw holes that busted thru the front ledger. Made sure to pack the holes well by poking the filler in and tamping it with a piece of welding wire.


Then I had one of those contemplative sessions where you just sort of move around, stare and think about future tasks. While sitting behind the galley and contemplating how I want to configure the small positive vent fan chase, I fingered through the stack of 3/4 inch foam that will go on the roof in two layers and found some long drops of the 5 mm ply that I forgot I had.


Doooope! I could have used some of this instead of splicing two sections together at the back of the ceiling panel. Oh well, they can also be used to make the side wing tables.

[Wolffarmer]

Looking good again.

Mod Rod's words I remember best are "Oh Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face. "


Randy

[GPW]

KC, You’ll sleep much better now knowing that’s fixed !!!
Small imperfections in wood (Mother Nature’s signature) means it’s Real Wood , and not a photograph like much inferior paneling ...

[NCBooger]

I hope when I do start my build I will have 1:100th the patience and attention to detail KC has.

[Ned B]

KC first off, way to go.

next... re those swirls... most likely your sander picked up a piece of larger grit, (several clumped together) and that's the pattern that resulted. You could try backing up a grit one level rougher, lightly sanding that area, then come back up to the grit level you were using there to get rid of them.

[bonnie]

That really came out well. Another thing to put in my little book of stuff....

[tony.latham]

KC: Here's a few pics of last Saturday's Magruder Road adventure. I'll PM some more details and thoughts.




The Bear Grass was in bloom above 6500'.


Burnt Knob Lookout. Not a great place for sleepwalking fire watchers.


Back side of the Bitterroots (looking NE towards Montana).


A look-see at some of the roughest part of the road. Ten-plys? You betcha.


The view down Sabe Creek.


Lunch time at Poet Creek Campground. I doubt it's changed since you and your dad were there.





The sign says it all... the outskirts of Elk City, Idaho.


Proof of pudding. There may have been someone playing a banjo behind an old shack...


Tony