 Good morning from Colorado, custom coach works, you know This doesn't look like a lot But there's a lesson here welding small pieces of sheet metal is very difficult This one took me three tries That one took me one try This is an all-day affair yesterday. I'm glad it was a pain in the butt. Anyways, that's what I learned Go thicker if it's a small piece Let's check in with miles with the tiles over here. How's it going, bro? Dude, it's looking awesome Yeah, yeah looks phenomenal This is gonna be you know, I don't know. What do you guys think about this? You think this could be better than mics? Baffin I think so you think this could be better than mics Right Equal or better, right? They're right. So it's looking amazing Miles is doing a phenomenal job in here The tiles super clean even though it wasn't red. I do like this. I do So anyways, let's go find you a bus. You should do red grout. Hmm. I don't know if that would work I think he's messing are you messing with me? No, I'm being serious. Let's do red grout. Uh-oh I'm thinking gray Okay, we'll settle down. All right. All right guys, here's a sneak peek of the bathroom still got there's part of a wall That needs to be done. I can't tell from outside. Actually, maybe the whole wall Yeah, and also we haven't left for I think we're gonna go up to Cheyenne. What's your mechanic friend say? Is he coming? Really? We're waiting on a mechanic friend having mechanic friends As you know is a great thing too bad. We didn't have Badger to check it out for us but So that may or may not happen today but This thing is looking good. I'd say we're about three quarters done. We just have this one wall here and Part of the wall here that looks excellent up on the wall they use part of the Which we'll call it the paper thing that I made to trace out that as a as a trace for that so if anybody has I'm gonna be takes off the front and back ones if you can hang on to them Just at least make yourself a trace because it's a lot easier once you're doing stuff. But God, that looks phenomenal. Good job Hey guys, we are now in outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. That's the correct address. We were pulling up to the property We had a very nice Kind of existential thought on the way Now tell me how you're feeling right now I'm like giddy. I'm out of my own skin. I'm so giddy. I know the feeling so there is the bus We're I think ten minutes early, so Hopefully the guy is Or we don't weird him out a little bit looks like a door to it is open Maybe should yeah, let's park here and oh, there's a couple cars. So 2010 I see a little rust hopefully it's not a rust bucket, but if anything else it is a good Practice for for something that we're gonna find potentially potentially potentially All right, so here's what we have. We have a 40-foot long bluebird all-american 2010 with a remanufactured 8.3 Cummins and Fired thing right up. It's pretty clean. We haven't really looked under it too much Here's what the inside looks like pretty pretty nice condition and Yeah, doesn't have like it's a 2010 so You know Not really any rust along that thing It's only eight years old It's a rear engine I've never actually driven one of these things before now I've sat in these before as a kid Bro, you excited? Yes All right, let's take this thing for a spin. This is gonna be my first try time driving a Flat-nose bus here goes nothing so much. Remember I told you about the air brakes Okay, hang on to that pointing toward me. We wait for this truck To pass are we recording? We are recording a sweet So this is the first time I'm driving a flat-nose bus, so steampunk Steve. I know it's gonna make you happy It's a little weird you sit in front of the tires, but Steve is right It's super comfy Right, right here we go. We're taking this bad boy for a ride 2010 8.3. Oh my god. This thing is smooth It's like driving a city bus. All right. I got Lord Looking out my rear view mirror side view mirror. No bizarre smoke coming out smooth transition lots of power. I Mean, I feel like I'm floating on air right now. I'm gonna have you drive this thing on the way back sweet Dude this thing drives nice. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I just floored right now a downshift a little bit We got plenty of power Super smooth. I mean It rides really really well This drives better than my bus like no joke really. Yeah, it's it's a smoother ride than my bus You'll see what I'm talking about once you get behind it. Okay, but I'm not sure what we're gonna turn around that horn has to go We'll get you there you go And now what do you think I think this is pretty cool pretty smooth, right? Really smooth. Yeah, very very smooth It's like I've been in buses gone cross-country On a bus. Yeah This is like a coach like a tour bus So we do have a little issue with the brakes. It's making a little noise the bus that could be from The the brakes just sitting and rusting and not being used We don't know but actuating the brakes is making some kind of noise So something to be aware of but I think we're just gonna take a little drive and We'll check in this drive so easy. Jen could drive this. Oh, that's the wife. The wife can drive the bus you hear that Yeah, this is a pretty it's a pretty good ride, isn't it? Piece of cake, right? All right, we're at the truck stop and guess what? All right, so what do you think man? Oh, this is surreal. It really is. All right Do you think Reed is crazy for selling his house and buying a bus comment below? Just like we took it on a test drive drives well I haven't figured out the bright and the not bright lights yet But we figured out how not to make the horn honk anymore You know that's an accomplishment in itself. Yeah, but Anyways brand new brand new bus 10,000 miles on a re-manufactured Cummins 8.3. It's a 40-foot bus You don't have to say how much it was, but I think it was a pretty fair deal. Oh, I got a screaming deal Joe. Thank you Yeah, so I called badge. I called Mike. I called a rocket bus life adventure I even gave my two cents and we got pretty much the price that we all ballpark right in between what everybody said So I think I don't get in trouble with my wife. Thank you Joe. Yep. So 2010 so we're gonna go celebrate with a burger and Drive back to Denver drive two hours back to Denver. All right, just had a little burger. I don't recommend this whatsoever But I've letting Reed drive his bus back to Denver The only reason I don't recommend it is it's nighttime and he's not used to it as you can see that bumpy-ass thing So um if you do Drive these things in the daytime get used to them first and then try and you know tackle it at nighttime All right by the way We're back. I stayed over at Reed last night. He's super pumped about that new bus And I am super stoked for him, but I'm also super stoked for these countertops Eric dude high five. You did a fantastic job on the table the epoxy Um, do you want to explain what exactly this is here again? It's yeah, it's a two-part epoxy resin mix you uh, you know There's a we'll have a video on that too with all the details and everything on your channel Yes on my excellent check out wander boom if you haven't on youtube and uh, but yeah You basically just equal parts of resin and hardener mix it all up for about four to five minutes And pour it on it spreads itself out pretty nice and then you hit it with a heat gun and spread it out to get rid of all the air bubbles and end up with a beautiful Glossy top. This is incredible incredible. So let me just run you through what I did so far I'm trying to help out Eric. Sadly. He's leaving us today, but I will see you in a couple weeks So, uh, I sanded off the the bottom part Which is this the little drippings and then obviously took off the uh duct tape here like so And uh, we're just getting it prepped and installed. Let's go have a peek what it looks like. All right Now I know the light is a little off, but you can get a pretty good idea what this thing is going to look like Installed so this is counter-dub number one I mean, this is this is awesome You could you could do a zamboni off of this table here this counter top So which please don't spill your drinks on my uh my counter tops But yeah, I'm gonna go work on the other one and then we'll have a peek once it's all installed All right now final thing I did was I touched at the bottom of this not that I care about the bottom of this But I care about the bottom of this because you can see it when you're walking from the back to the front So I just matched all that to uh You know Just to go together so the tops and the sides and the bottom look the same Eric, what is going on over here? I'm prepping for some legs here. You got this nice hardware for that Collapses and uh little little tricky, but it's nice. Yeah But then yeah, so the legs can close up underneath like that And they lock but they lock open Excellent excellent, so this is for the The chess table chess table slash dining table slash entertaining table slash whatever the heck table And it's going to slide under one of the benches All right, this is what uh The current situation looks like here. Eric is having some fun When I say but I use that term loosely deep cabinets. Yep. Yeah, he's having some fun drilling into the cabinets to um attach them to the uh Well drilling into the countertop from the cabinets. I think I said that correctly Uh So next one we have is over here. This is going to look a lot different once we're outside in natural light It's a little We're getting tense where we got fluorescent bulbs. I've got a flashlight, but um This camera does a pretty good job of you know, picking up a low light here So this is more or less what? It's like a Believe it or not the indirect works better. Um Yeah, so this is kind of an idea what everything's going to look like This is where the sink is going The stove is going over there Um But uh, you know color is like I said, it'll change a little bit depending on the light source Wow, that's some noise, huh? Uh Anyways, I'm gonna let uh, Eric Do what he does best. So by the way, Eric has been hanging out for Three weeks or so something like that. So I can't thank you enough for coming by It was completely out of the blue. We didn't know each other before this But now I feel like we're going to be lifelong friends. Absolutely. So, um He just uh secured the countertops to the cabinets Still got a little bit of work to do for the rest of the bus, but this part is pretty much done. Do you want to explain? What exactly is going on here? Yeah, well again, this side is uh, got we got the the cook tops going here Undermount sink is over here So got a real nice little the refrigerator will be down underneath here So you got a nice little tight little triangle for the work triangle as they say And uh plenty of room on this side for just for your prep or whatever you want to do you got your room for Vitamix or any other fun stuff. Oh, yeah, definitely got a definitely got a blender. Yep blend tech Yeah, so so now yeah, there'll be more of this material basically again kind of covering our The top here around the around the benches. Mm-hmm. And uh reed gonna be able to help out a bit on that Yeah, or if for some reason it's still not happening in a couple weeks. We could wrap it up down then Exactly exactly. Hopefully well read is a little excited. He's got a new bus. So He might be a little pretty focused where he focused But yeah, um, but yeah, this is incredible. So we're doing it. Yeah undermount This is all a poxied the sink is gonna sit under the wood level here cooktop is gonna go over. We're gonna have to Cut out some of this Cabinet, you know for for some of this stuff, I think Yeah, that one might this one for sure. We're gonna have a little bit there But these things are incredible. I mean it almost looks like some kind of slap um Just awesome stuff. So I honestly I can't think of So much Yeah, likewise. So, uh, if you haven't already check out wonder boom Um, and also if you need some countertops or something like that, uh, he is uh four higher And it's gonna be traveling around and uh checking out cool places uh making videos with his lovely wife And uh, yeah, he's uh, he does great work. So if you guys are in the market for a countertop Yep, or any other fun woodworking tool, you know stuff. Yeah, so, uh, what what's your background? Well, yeah, I was spent up in 25 years in the trades of all different kinds and uh, uh We went a number of years doing fine carpentry and trim work and things so I can do anything on regular houses or on buses and vans and everything else. So, uh, yeah You know what like like the chessboard table or, you know, anything like that. Yeah or backgammon for Well, there you go, whatever, but if you're not a chess player, yeah I mean from uh, yeah from all the basic rough framing all the way down to trim carpentry. So, uh, Cabinets and all that fun stuff and yeah, all that good stuff. Perfect. Well, uh, I will see you in a couple weeks over at the van bill party. Yeah, absolutely And by the way, if anybody wants to come out meet, uh, Eric, uh hang out, uh with anybody that you've seen in the videos who said they will be there, uh, Steve Mojo bus, any of those guys, Jamie come on out. I will be there most of the month. I believe Um, definitely gotta finish up a couple things here Before I hit the road, but come on out hang out. It's a really cool group of people You might even be converted to a bus person afterwards. So yeah, it's a good time getting a Eric's card there We stapled in a magnet here. So for everyone to see oh, you stapled right over your phone number Anyways, there it is. Uh, Eric Vanderboom, Erick and his tools Realists, realists, you know, fossil name