Haha! if you were to make the trip, I have plenty of lodging. From mild to wild! hah!


Life, as you can imagine, has been busy for me these last couple weeks. But, I've made some progress on all of my projects, so that's good.





Car progress...

Still can't report much, aside from the fact that I've remade the door sill mold, and made the first real attempt at one of those today.

Revised Plug - crisper letters





#001 door sill - infused.



I'll see how that turns out tomorrow.

I haven't spent much time on the car itself, as of late, because my friend's 17' Boston Whaler was being worked on in my other bay. I did not want to have the car uncovered, even for a moment, while he was working/slinging fiberglass dust everywhere.....

Here's his boat, finally out of my garage. Some fresh bottom paint away from being splashed (hopefully this weekend).



So I too did boat stuff. Needed to play catch up with my Whaler, as some of you may remember from earlier...

Strippy strippy

Chris Craft red mahogany filler stain



...And some random coat of varnish picture.....I think this was three coats.

The first three coats of Epifanes varnish were thinned 50% with brushing liquid. Then the ratios were cut in half until about 15% thinned for the final 5 or so coats. Sanding with 220 between coats.





There are a total of 8 coats on the pieces now...I'll take more pictures once things are actually assembled.

Tiny house update - I've spoken with the zoning officer and everything seems to be in line and moving forward as planned. I anticipate receiving my town building permit on the 6th of April. Then I touch base with the county, and start building the slab. Freakin' sweet!

I took some time to clear the build site in the meantime...

Showing the lot, and my really weird boundaries. It's a non conforming lot.....that's about 9 acres. Since it is waterfront property, the 110' of frontage I have is what they use to determine conforming/non. I'm 10' short of the 120' minimum to make the lot conforming....What a stupid rule. haha. I wish there were exceptions based on lot size.... But no dice.

It's such a cool property. You've got the water, 4 acres of woods, and the 4 acre field portion, and trails/connected pathways to bring you anywhere on the property. You can walk from one end of the property to the other, with no one seeing you. I like my privacy.

For perspective, the doors will open into the woods, and lead into one of those pathways that brings you anywhere along the property. We are currently looking toward the carport side of the tiny house.




Now that Ryan's Whaler is out of my hands, I can remove the cover from the car, and actually (yes, actually) start to pick up where I left off: Getting that carbon interior together....Once and for all.

The time is now.

This post was edited by OldAndyAndTheSea on Mar 23 2016 07:27pm

looks like you built a gokart track too, and now ur building a tiny house on it?

Haha, yup. We built a pretty dope dirt track last year. The field is entirely Goldenrod (sucks to your allergies, allergic people) that grows in excess of 5-6' in height during the summer. We blaze a track through the field and proceed to race whatever we can on it.

Go Karts, Bikes, Golf Carts (my fav ), anything we have at the time, really.

I'm definitely going to build a cool driving area in the field for car stuff.

Once I am established at the property, I can then really take the time and landscape/maintain the property properly.






Today was a good day. Produced a beautiful door sill.






And then I proceeded to make another one, but this time experimenting with colored letters.



We'll see how that one comes out tomorrow.

This post was edited by OldAndyAndTheSea on Mar 24 2016 03:38pm

Colored letters are a go.. The rushed proof of concept worked well.

I'll be going white with my personal set.... Unless I change my mind.







This weekend is going to be spent solely on 240 stuff.


Next stop: Progress-town!

If you joined the NSX forums you could make a killing off producing carbon parts.

Those guys will pay, lots.