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Join Date: November 2, 1998
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Anybody build gunboxes/cases
I'm talking about those nice cases or boxes that better guns would come in. Anybody build them? Let's see pictures.
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I've built several display cases for handguns, arrowheads, etc. Last one I made was for the long suffering Mrs Schlitz's Heritage Roughrider that was a Valentines Day gift & got her back into shooting regularly. This one was made out of an old Winchester 45 ACP ammo box.
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Join Date: August 1, 2021
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Building one now. I didn't go as far as the guy above me did. I purchased a really nice shadow box, and gutted it, keeping only the glass and the wood frame. Making custom stuff for the pistols as I go. Will post pics when I get somewhere presentable.
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https://www.gunboxesusa.com/
https://www.finehomedisplays.com/gun-display-cases.asp for a couple Search "hand presentation box" or case Or were you asking about home hobby activity?
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I made a Doc Holliday pistol presentation case some time back
A few years back I was on a huge western kick, taking a special interest and liking to Doc Holliday, both in some real documented history and Hollywood depictions. I was between other hobbies and decided to modify some grips on a couple Cimarron stainless and nickel plated old west revolver models for my ideas/versions of what his guns may have been like. Nothing historically or even movie accurate, but just a fun project...
- Oh yeah the case.. It seemed only fitting they rest in a nice case. Like you said, nice cases better guns came in, so I up-cycled an old silverware chest into a velvet lined wooden presentation case. Here's a vid I made of the process and lots of finished pics... https://youtu.be/1N_90c2AjP0 "
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I have a CNC router that makes cutting complex shapes pretty easy. I might try that one day.
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I still need to learn how to use a router. I've got a craftsman tabletop that I don't know how to use.
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They're just like bullets--you can never have too much horsepower or rpm's.
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Thanks stagpanther. I would, but I have to learn what I'm doing first.
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stagpanther getting all fancy on us and thinking that thinking is the answer.
It probably is. But when I picked up my routers from an estate sale, they were covered in cemented powdered horse dookey. One hand-held, one hand-held that was bolted to a piece of melamine particle board to drop into an extension on the guy's table saw (I did not get the saw). I pressure washed the pair, blew out what water I could, stuck them in my 6,000 degree shed in the middle of summer, and then plugged them in a few weeks later, to see if they worked. I just went with trial and error to learn how to adjust and set them up. I think one of them has a bent shaft or base. No matter the feed direction or type of bit, it wants to climb the material and do bad things. Also, Routers are loud.
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Absolute bare minimum would be a 2.5 hp 24,000 rpm router like a bosch would be what I would recommend. Anything less is --making lots of chips, sawdust and ruined jobs IMO. ![]()
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