Our materials are chosen for their durability, ease of use, and charming good looks.
Treat them with care, keep them clean, say nice things about them, and they will last the lifetime of your van.
Plywood
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Black Hex
Face: Durable textured phenolic coating
Back: Smooth phenolic coating
Core: Baltic Birch plywood
Care:
- Wipe with a damp cloth or gentle all-purpose cleaner
- Surface can show fingerprints and dust so light maintenance keeps it looking sharp
- Avoid abrasive pads or harsh chemicals
- Edges are raw plywood - apply furniture wax to improve water resistance and durability
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White Laminate
Face: White High Pressure Laminate
Back: White High Pressure Laminate
Core: Baltic Birch plywood
Care:
- Wipe down with a damp cloth or all-purpose cleaner (can handle more aggressive household cleaners)
- Avoid scouring pads
- Edges are raw plywood - apply furniture wax to improve water resistance and durability
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Natural Plywood
Surface: Raw birch veneer
Core: Baltic Birch plywood
This material requires finishing!
- Finish with paint, clear coat, stain + poly, or hard wax oil
- It's recommended to sand before finishing
- Avoid exposure to water until finished
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Bamboo
Surface: Amber Edge Grain Bamboo
Core: Solid bamboo layers
This material requires finishing!
- Finish with hard wax oil, tung oil, or furniture-grade wood oil
- Re-sand and reapply finish as needed -bamboo ages beautifully with care
- Avoid exposure to water until finished
Hardware
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Unistrut Rails
We've taken lightweight aluminum strut channel, and turned it into the mounting point for your entire van build.
Benefits:
- Lightweight
- Easily modified
- Smooth channel provides unlimited mounting points (no need to line up mounting points like in L-track)
- Strong enough to mount on
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Rivet Nuts
By using Rivet Nuts (called rivnuts), you create instant threaded inserts that act as the anchor points for rails, panels, bags, and anything else you can screw into them.
Benefits:
- Provides strength to thin van sheet metal
- Unlimited ability to install and remove components without damaging the van
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Channel Hardware
We use ¼-20 threaded strut channel nuts to anchor all of our components to our unistrut rail system. If you have the Featherbuilt Foundation System, you can mount any cabinets or benches to the rails!
Benefits:
- Easily sourced
- Compatible with ¼-20 screws, hooks, and clips
