Camper Kitchen Cabinet build progress

Camper kitchen cabinet progress is slow. Every glue-up is an overnight drying event as it's so cold in the workshop at the moment.

The cabinet will eventually feature an upper-left shelf with hinged door, a lower-left deep drawer, upper-right end-pullout drawer designed to fit a 45L 12V fridge, and lower-right end-pullout drawer. There is space to mount a small camping sink into the surface on the upper-left if I get that far. A portable camping stove will always sit on top as the 45L fridge compartment has no spare space to inset burners.

The bench top veneer (shown in the pic with the belt sander mounted vertically) is something I found on a pallet at work several years ago. It was a bottom layer protective sheet that's throw-away. I've used it to cover the rough ply I found on a pallet at work (same thing). I edged the ply with pine trim as shown below. 20mm thickness lets me round-over the top with a router.

I've used dad's biscuit joiner on every...single...intersection...of...every...single piece. It's been a slow glue-up job... Sometimes pieces were put in after-the-fact and ended up with biscuits inserted into the side of the join instead of the face as the tool doesn't always access the orientation you might like.

Unsorted pics.

Campervan folding table

Below are pics from a test-fitting of the fold-down-table for the van.

I know it's ugly at the moment, but so was the van when I had the roof cut off. Currently edges are not rounded/trimmed. Surfaces are not oiled/varnished. Floor coverings are endgame. Walls will be installed last so don't ask. Old folding chairs are merely placeholders to show scale and space, though they will be used for some time as the next priority is the kitchen cabinet.

The table is 900x700mm. The leg is a piece of snowy-gum that I collected from Mt.Buffalo in Vic.au back when I collected the van from NSW. It's a high altitude slow growing eucalyptus, very dense, but not as heavy as redwood. It was intended as a walking stick but I never got around to whittling it down. Now it has purpose.

The leg-hinge is just a 16mm Tas-Oak dowel into some redwood ends. The dowel has a piece of 4mm ply as a gusset into the leg approx 100mm deep...you can see in the pics... Overall it's not as rigid as I'd like, but it was all made from scraps I had laying around. The table is certainly as rigid as any portable camping table.

The table pivots against the van wall on 8mm steel rods inserted about 150mm into the timber. The steel rods came out of some plastic conveyor rollers that had discolored from UV exposure and couldn't be mixed with new ones and were thrown out. I will install a latch to keep the table against the wall eventually; probably magnetic for stationary quick-use, and an additional mechanical latch for travel-mode.

Winter garden beans

We have our first winter vegetables coming through now. The smallest plants are the ones pumping out the edibles!

From last years green-beans experiment I'd expect about one or two 4Litre ice-cream containers worth each of the green and yellow beans from the plants here. The broadbeans and snow peas are experiments. The stalks are some summer-corn-stalks left behind as something for the snow-peas to climb.

Boat Van: Roof extension complete.

Finally the roof extension is done. Freshly painted and washed. Can't wait to get started on the inside.

Dem' facts will be the end of you...

I guess reality is optional for some people.

It is heart breaking that people will prioritise topics like abortion as a pro-Trump argument, when it pales into absurd insignificance compared to the literal directly related deaths of adults due to his actions and words, the damage he has done in every other area of human ethics, business leadership, and the roles of a public servant.

Nobody in the history of modern western leadership has accumulated the volume of factual, verifiable, countable lies as Trump.

Please try sources of news other than Fox and Rush Limbaugh for your information. You might even learn something.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/

Boat Van: The Roofening - Construction complete.

Roof construction phase complete. Remaining tasks are edge sealing, hole filling, and final painting. Still a fair bit of work...but the hard construction and head scratching is done.

This has been a huge job. I've never done automotive body panel work before, not even rusty patch repairs, let alone a roof extension.

I'm super pleased with the way it worked out. Strength, geometry, overall look, all awesome. Can't wait to finally do the intended work, which was the interior all along!!