TD progress

[Dooner]

LittleCritter, just take you time. You will be happier in the end. Rushing gets you mistakes, beleive me, I know.
And the fenders. I have the same trailer and fenders. I hated the way they looked till I put trim around them. I really like mine now. I will try to get some pics in my album so you can see.

[peggyearlchris]

Hi there, I started my build last June and still don't have the walls up But I do have them cut out and hopefully they will be up soon.
You are off to a good start. Have fun. Peg

[LittleCritter]

What's the size on the two storage compartments? (There is two right, divided?) What do you plan to use those for?

The overall compartment size is 2 x 4 feet and I put a cut out divider in the middle. It is 6 inches in depth. I cut the two holes 16 x 20 inchees. I plan to use it for miscellaneous camping stuff that ya think ya might need. I'll have to lift the mattress everytime so things that go in there are things that will be used occasionally, just in case type of things.

[LittleCritter]

Well after cutting out a cardboard profile I realized that I really could get by with 4 foot sides rather than 5. To me the 5 foot sides were just too high for the look I wanted. And I was dreading having to scarf or lap those joints together. My test piece worked great though. It's 10 feet long, so I had to lap joint 2 feet onto the end. The joint is going to be re-enforced by the cabin wall, so I think I'll be okay for strength... and to cover up the bad lap joint I did on one of the sides.

Here is a pic of the cardboard profile. I am glad I took the time to do this and to be able to visual it in 3D and life-size. I knew I just had to have that tablesaw for its box



And so on I went to drawing the profile out on the plywood. I was very nervous about this because I painted the outside and varnished the inside beforehand and I didn't want to screw up!! Well all went well though. Many many thanks to Andrew for his awesome designing. I used the Gruman 2 profile design in his library. He was so kind to even draw a 5 foot high version, but I went with the 4 foot verson after all.

Here is a couple pix of the sides view. Hubby and son are holding the sides up for the picture. Boy oh boy those sides weigh alot!! Everytime I want to move them I have to ask for help. IF I do another build I definitely will be framing the sides.





Next I've got to cut the doors out.

[Tear Les]

Now that looks just great!

[jdarkoregon]

I Like that profile! Its got phaaaaaLOW to it!

Some steps in the build go sloooooooow and others go quickly, and when you are done, (or in the middle) you decide how you would do it next time.

Looking good,

John

[bledsoe3]

One of the best moments of building is putting up the walls. Congrats!