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For many years I have been interested in Gypsy Wagons or "vardos" and western sheepherder wagons. As it isn't practical for me to have an authentic, h...
After about fifty sketches and lots of graph paper renderings, I decided I needed to visualize this in three dimensions. Here is my cardboard mock-up ...
I found a sturdy little cargo trailer with a heavy duty frame and tongue. The first step was to cut off the box with a reciprocating saw and grinder. ...
There was a huge sense of relief when I made the first cuts to create the brackets. After years of pondering, waiting, and changing plans, I felt comm...
The walls are built like a box, not like modern stick framing. All are tongue and groove pine, the front and rear being 3/4" thick, the sides 1/4". Th...
The bed structure ties the walls together and stiffens the entire structure. Without this, I would have to find some other way to strengthen the walls...
The table is modeled after those in old British wagons. The window was made as a separate unit and then attached whole to the wagon body. It is oak an...
We took her on a 500 mile journey into the desert to test her out and figure out some interior layout issues. We got a base coat of oil paint on most ...
Stairs were built to match wagon. Oak treads, fir risers. The paint was still proceeding slowly at this point but we had to take some time off to head...
With autumn here I felt it was time to deal with the dreaded stove. I made a hearth area in the corner, tiled the riser with slate, covered the walls ...
This is the wagon being used on the road. I have fired up the stove and have spent about three weeks worth of nights in it by the time this photo was ...
Only with time will the wagon really take on a personality as it get lived in and things are arranged "just so". Like a ship or any small living space...
Here she is after 9000+ miles and more improvements. Its a continuing process that I hope to perfect in the next decade or so. The paint is still no...
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