Teardrop: Walls
While I had the trailer floor built, I used it as a table to cut a template for the walls. I didn’t have any table big enough, otherwise, so planning and execution has to follow strict order, otherwise you find yourself without material for a table that would have otherwise been perfect.
Up until this point if felt like I was just revamping a utility trailer, but now it started to get excited. I always loved round designs. I never understood why we got away from arched doorways to boring, old square. To me, this is the biggest difference between something that has curves and something that’s just a box.
One is sexy, the other is utilitarian and lacks any thought or inspiration.
One of the major decisions I made at this point was to give the old heave-hoe to the door design in the Wyoming Woody. It was nothing more than a square and lacked pizzazz. Even though it was going to be more difficult, I opted to build my own door, with the curves that I wanted to see in the design. Something that would compliment the lines of the Teardrop.
It’s also going to be more of a challenge building my own then cutting a hole and slotting one in that looks like everyone else’s. It’s that “Ikea” mentality that I hate. (Read the About Me for more information there.
Other than this change, I’ll let the pictures do the talking, but basically I used the same procedures that one would use for building a boat.
When a boat is designed, the architect comes up with a set of layouts… numbers. These are nothing more then X & Y coordinates that are then transferred to wood. But, the big difference is that once they are transferred and the baton is run, the builder then decides what looks good to him and modifies the lines.
In other words, don’t trust the numbers, trust your eyes and your flare for design. That’s how winning ships are built, like the Bluenose, and it’s something not typically taught. I changed the lines to please me instead of slavishly adhering to what the original designs called for.
