The "Stripper"

This is pretty cool looking. What sort of tongue weight are you looking at with this little fella?

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

What a great niche you have found for you considerable talents. These are wonderful.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Neat project Steve.
It fits right in with my phylospohy of getting out of town with the smallest footprint and the most convenience.
Do you have any concerns with the hot glue loosening with the racking the trailer gets on the road?
I know you fiberglassed it but what hold the stips besides glue?

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

“This is pretty cool looking. What sort of tongue weight are you looking at with this little fella?”

Looks are deceiving. The tongue weight is about #150, a bit heavy for it’s #1000 gross weight. Tongue weight should be about 10% of the GVW. The walls on this one are solid wood. A good way to break the scales! I’ve learned a lot.
I have been building with composite panels lately. The benefits are, light weight, insulation, and the ability to do some interesting use of various species of ply. A similar sized trailer now weighs in at about #700, with a #60 tongue weight.

Oh! The strips are held on with Titebond 2. Hot glue, used as a clamp, is removed during the fairing process.
Fiberglass/epoxy seals the wood from the elements.

-- Blessings, Steve. Upstate NY. http://www.campingclassics.com

Very cool!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Very nice, where do you get the frame from?

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

“Very nice, where do you get the frame from?”
Thanks!
I build my own. Depending on what’s on it, 2” by 2” by 1/4” tubing, or 2” by 2” by 1/8” angle.
All of my recent trailers roll on torsion suspensions.

-- Blessings, Steve. Upstate NY. http://www.campingclassics.com

Sweet! I’ve discovered from building my own woodstrip canoe that using this building technique you can pretty much create anything you can imagine. Very nice job.

-- lobbster, Oregon, www.michaellobby.com

Wow! That is beautiful work! Who would think that such a tiny little trailer could be so elaborate inside. Super job.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

looks like fun…i am a tent/backpacking guy—-but that is something i could sleep in!!! looks fun!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...119 days to sanity...

A great ”little” camper. Looks nice.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

That is pretty spiffy. Looks to be just the right size for the wife and I.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Awesome – looks like just the ticket! (now to convince my wife to “rough it”... ;)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

You sure love your woodwork, great job

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Great looking little camper. Looks like a LOT of work, but came out really nice.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Yes sir, you’ve got some beautiful stuff here! I’ll bet some inlay would spice it up even more! And if it wasn’t for the fact that we have the RV, I’d definately build one too!

We’ve done a lot of “growing up” in the Adirondacks over the past 20 years and have recently been checking out the southern NY trout streams. Next season I think we’ll head for the ocean. Ya gotta just love camping.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Fabulous work. A land yacht for rich hobbits. Let’s go camping.

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Wonderful!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Too good a job for camping. Great piece of woodworking Steve.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Great job ! Bet it looks better now than the day it hit the showroom floor! Again GREAT JOB!

-- I love this site !

I love these campers. I checked out your web site. You’re doing really nice work on these. I’m inspired. If I ever get caught up on my other projects I may be contacting you about one of these.

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com