I know this may sound like a vent but I just have to mention it to folks
who would understand and it's not real busy on the list.
I had no idea how involved and time consuming it would be to build all
new cabinets and closets and walls in this unit! We are really enjoying
this "fun part" but we are wearing a path thru the concrete driveway
while running to the trailer fitting each tiny piece cuz EVERYTHING is
curved or angled in some funny way!!! Good thing we saved old walls and
the top and kitchen cabinets to use as patterns.....I would be using up
lots of cardboard making templates for those curvy walls. Good thing too
my Mr was indulgent enuf to get good jig saw and ban saw and drum sander
to shape the pieces.
This is a 67 22' safari and I wondered if someone with one knows....is
the wood teak or oak or both? I stained the one wall by the bath that
kept and it sure looked like the teak that I oiled so much on a sailboat
but the cabinets look like oak. If it's teak then we will take them
apart and plane the solid pieces but not if it's oak. The Mr can make
his boxes from it. Oak is firewood here! It has a driftwood stain and
is groddy anyway so it's hard to tell.
Also...does anyone else who does this work use Kreg screw system? It is
so great at holding joints...I had to mention it. We got it at a
woodworking show 2 years ago and use it all the time...even for fine
cabinetry. It's a way of efficiently toenailing joints together with a
jig....like the galley cabinet frame and the closet frames.
We have built several cabinets and furniture items but I had no idea
this thing would take so much custom fitting. And I can't really draw
an efficient plan...everything is sorta done in place as we go with my
plans as only guides. I had no idea rivets we so strong either...I
gotta admit I have really learned so much from all the work we have done
and still are doing. It always makes me feel secure in that I know we
can fix it if it breaks...but it better not break for a while!!! I've
worked too hard doing an overkill job at all of it!!!
Guess I feel better getting it out!!! Back to non-square building
shelves.
Lexxy/aka/Lynn
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