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Thanks! Maybe a more apt statement would be that my CNC machine has some mad wood skills. :cool:

Couple quick progress updates: Got the forward bed-side cabinets built and installed. Dinette is cut and dry-fit. Footwell for the dinette is pre-assembled, finished and wired up: Pre-wiring electrical before installation is uh... ongoing.

Nice one!

OK, did a quick back of the napkin calculation on cabinet weight using Fusion's built-in volume measurements. Plyboo 1/2" 48x96: ~60lbs per sheet Total estimated weight of designed cabinets: 515lbs Dry weight of camper: ~1,200lbs GVWR: 4,200lbs So with a build weight so far of ~1,700lbs, we...

We're using 1/2" plyboo. It looks great, has a nice edge finish so we don't have to do an edge treatment. And it cuts like a dream on a CNC. I want to use Fusion to tell me how much the design will weigh but I have a lot of construction bodies that are throwing off the calculations. I need to...

Thanks! We use Fusion 360 and then dump it all out to our Avid 48x96 Pro CNC to do all the work for us. I wouldn't have taken on this project if we didn't have the CNC. That thing is a godsend.

Under the dinette just aft of the entry door on the starboard side is a pull-out drawer with a composting head inside. Detail view of the galley. The cutout panels in the storage above the galley counter is where we'll mount electrical controls like a breaker panel and a Victron GX Touch 50...

Some detail on the interior Ventilation details in the aft lockers A view of the under galley lockers, water tank and pass-through locker that we can move stuff from the interior kitchen to cook outside. Detail of the fridge cabinet with battery storage below and food storage above.

We've got our interior design pretty much dialed in. We're actually starting on some of the casework now and pre-wiring some parts before we put them in the camper. Thought I'd share our design with y'all. Once we got the camper, we went through the interior with a fine-toothed comb and a...

Not really. Very very unlikely with the camper on. With the camper off, we'll make some dump runs with a utility trailer or the like but we didn't set this up for towing. If we were going to do significant towing, I would have opted for the Cummins engine. But for a whole host of reasons, we...

My wife and I have this thing where we could go out and buy the thing we want and then use it and be happy but we always seems to choose the path with the highest amount of ass pain. When we had our house built we could have gone out to IKEA and plunked down cash on the barrel for a turn key...

I miss Australia, we lived in Melbourne for a year. Circumnavigating Tassie is a dream! We only made it there once but it stuck with us.

Forgot to mention that we pulled the OEM wheels off and replaced them with 37s. Here's a fun fact: you can put 37" tires on RAM 3500 without any suspension modifications. The key (at least for us) was to use AEV's Katla 17" wheels. They are designed to fit these RAM HD trucks perfectly. We get a...

Yeah, good call on backup cooker. We actually plan to do most of our cooking outside (depending on the weather and mosquitos) so we'll have a plain ol' propane cooker with a small refillable propane can. We upgraded the OEM tires to 37s so they don't fit underneath anymore.

Oh, I'd love to hear about your travels in Alaska. I was up there on a motorcycle and we traveled through SE / Inside Passage on our sailboat years ago. It's on our list. And it's a driver for the form factor we want because the pigeon-sized mosquitoes are brutal in places. 550-class truck...

We looked at some slide-in campers, there's loads of really great options out there. But there's no getting around it, they just can't use space efficiently. You always lose space around the bed sidewalls. So flat bed it is. Sourcing a flatbed in the US sucks. Australia has offroading dialed in...

My wife and I love camping and as our careers wind down, we want to start ramping up some longer trips. We love the US southwest desert in the winter. We lived on a sailboat for years and spent time on the water in the Sea of Cortez. Now we want to spend winters on the beach in Baja and we need...

Picked up our empty shell from Overland Adventure Truck in Olympia, WA a few weeks back. Cranking on the build out now.

Bump + lowered price.

Just lowered the price to $17,000!