Project Choose Your Own Adventure

[ScottyB]

This was the coolest start to finish thread to follow. I just read everything for the first time and it was awesome seeing the final product just now, looks great. Surprised you have such little woodworking experience and from the pictures and details it seems pretty spot on. I tried making a table once and I think that’s where I’ll leave my skills lol.

So what’s the new timeline for completion? Seems almost done from the looks of it.

ha thanks, just looking back i realize now that like half of all the photo links are broken (photobucket basically nuked itself during that timeframe).  i hate that, sorry i'm sure it made some of this pretty hard to follow.

skill-wise, i really have mostly spacial awareness on my side and a good experience with a handful of power tools.  that's really about it.  most of what i know would apply to cabinetry at this point and not fine woodworking.  these teardrops originated from a Popular Mechanics how-to article so they were designed for the mostly-average joe and i've found it to be true.  where you are with the table you built is how i look at guys who build decks or houses.  that seems amazing to me, but they had to start somewhere!  same applies to cars...i can replace/bolt in a whole suspension at this point, but there was a time when an oil change was super intimidating.  you just gotta go for it.

we're aiming for Memorial Day.  that will give us the summer to do a lot of local test-camping and work out the bugs, and then in the fall we plan to take a nice vacation on the blue ridge parkway and try to cover at least the NC portion while fishing/camping/hiking.  ultimate goal is to take it across the country and see stuff like The Keys, Grand Canyon, Glacier Nat'l, Yosemite, Redwoods, Yellowstone, Cascades, Watkins Glenn and Arcadia, etc. in between those trips i'm hoping to pull it around with the civic to some track events here in GA and the southeast, maybe even join some MM'ers at the 24 Hours of Daytona.