Where did you get your edging strip for the tables from @JamesLey ? I am looking for some to redo my tables and it doesn't look like the stuff I have from NLAVW is a match. Not that I'm blaming them, who knows how many times the interior has been spruced up on a 48 year old Westy. Thanks
Its from Evo Motion Design, comes in black, grey and silver (it's the grey one on ours) https://www.evomotiondesign.co.uk/product/t-edge-trim/
Making the most of the warmer evenings to get some further cabinets made up for Iris. Lots of templating and routing on this one, the cab centre unit. I’m routing the pipe work for the heating out the front and back of this unit. Just the cooker unit left now.
Superb job as all ways. Any trips planed yet? Or is everything on ice? As over here in Sweden. Skickat från min iPhone med Tapatalk
Everything is at a bit of a standstill for now. Hopefully later in the year restrictions might ease a bit and let us out a bit more. For now Iris is being used to taxi Max to and from the hospital most days while the bus service is running a reduced service. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Looking good James! When I made my buddy box I had the same issue that you’ve had with the hinges having to go through or meet another piece of wood. I recently discovers these on which would make that arrangement a little easier... https://www.toolstation.com/hafele-...MI7Nmxw6Tn6AIVhbTtCh1JrAlMEAQYESABEgIOq_D_BwE The coffee cup holder in the buddy box was one of the best things I did to my van! You don’t really realise how useful something simple like that we take for granted in modern cars is until it’s not there!
Thanks mate. The hinges fitted ok, that strip of wood at the back is purely to hide a multitude of sins! I forgot to account for the little grey connecting blocks when mounting the hinges so when I came to fit the top the hinges wouldn’t fit, so I moved the blocks down. The holes left in the wood were annoying me so I added that strip to hide them! I also made the damn thing 2cm too wide the first time so had to give it a trim. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
that looks fantastic james - love the quality of your work. my centre box is looking a little worse for wear now after 6 yrs of camping with kids and dogs
Thanks mate. I think using decent quality materials has made all the difference. Bus is all ready to use, but nowhere to go!
Looking good, but do you need the central vertical divider? That will interfere with pans and saucepans with handles. Also, if you make the shelves adjustable you will thank yourself for it in the future.
That’s a thought. I’m making it slightly shorter than my original design as the current height is probably too much for “swing-out” mode. It’d save material too losing the central divide. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Fantastic work, I mean from the welding, fab, spraying, upholstery, furniture. Im struggling to see how your a 'solutions architect' or whatver it is'. I'm not sure I believe your not a pro in disguise. Ive read your thread a few times now. Better work than Ive seen by some 'specialists', and if you ever need a career change I think youve found your calling. Now, youve inspired me, time to stop dithering & get some work done on my pile of rust thatsbeen sat on axle stands for 5 odd years... Thanks for sharing your work.
Thanks for taking the time to read the thread. Bit of a journey but well worth it. I'm a strong believer of time being a good substitute for experience; it may take me a lot longer than a pro but hopefully the results are what I want. Get going on yours! Even small progress is still progress.
You've a far more thorough job because your time is free. A professional has to work within a time/money constraints in a market that expects them to work for the love of it and where parts alone can eat the average rose tinted budget. A full on detailed resto of a rust bucket cannot make financial sense if one has to pay for the labour so they rarely happen.
Good fun when you can do it for the love of them though and time is free! How did you find it when you were doing it professionally?
I was always skint funnily enough and eventually realised I could also earn nothing watching TV so gave up doing whole ones then gave up altogether. I was never any good at asking actual people for money, most of my life I worked for huge companies in Telecoms that literally threw money in return for fast results. One problem was if I estimated I'd try hard to stay on target. That meant doing a bit more if required, then another bit and another at no cost...at some point this just doesn't work and the bigger the job the more I was doing for free. Paying my very able assistant by the hour, which he deserved, compounded my crap invoicing. By the end I was working to pay him. What an idiot! All my own fault of course. Self inflicted crap businessman.
^ In my defense I was supposed to be semi-retiring and my now ex took a job to help that, but I hadn't forseen that she'd spend her entire earnings on gin and CDs so I ended up needing more out of it than I'd planned.
