


September 01, 2010
Bourjaily: Not Your Grandpa's Gun Cabinet
By Philip Bourjaily
Who says a gun cabinet has to look like a gun cabinet? Peter Kasper, a young friend of mine, is a senior at Iowa State University, where he majors in Furniture Design. Peter also shoots for ISU’s trap and skeet club, so when it came time to submit a piece to the 2010 Design Emphasis Show at the International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta, he built an oak and walnut gun cabinet. He tells me: “I would classify this as a 'Contemporary Studio Piece'-meaning it is part experimental sculpture while being functional. I was influenced by James Krenov and the British design firm Cato."
It can hold up to 5 long guns. The pegs are spaced far enough apart to accommodate a 12ga SxS. Overall size is 72"tall x 18"deep x 24"wide. The doors lock with a magnetic key.”
The judges called the piece “unique.” They said had never seen a gun cabinet entered before and awarded Peter’s cabinet third place in the “case goods” category. Third at the IWF is a big deal, by the way, so congratulations are in order. As for the cabinet, I like it. I just wish it held more guns.
Comments (52)
This cabinet looks kinda goofy to me.
As a former custom cabinet and furniture maker, I like it! Would of like to see all natural finished walnut that was steamed and aged.
not bad. i also would like to see it hold more guns and the color kind of throws me off.
I like the looks of it. It doesn't look like a gun cabinet, so somebody(theif) that was looking for guns wouldn't necessarily look too hard at it. My only question is how do you secure it? To the wall?
I suppose a fellow could always make a larger version to hold more guns. The thought that occurred to me upon initial viewing was that a burgular might not recognize it as a gun cabinet and maybe would not open it. Of course a gun safe if preferable if you can afford one or more. Even though I don't cater to the styling I can see that some people might really like it.
Kinda reminds me of my locker while stationed at Kadena Air Base Okinawa. Because of my job, had to stay close to Aircraft Maintenance Control so I had to live in the barracks. New Commander had to have an open locker inspection and you should of seen Her face when I opened it up my locker. 5 foot spear gun and 12 inch blade diving knife, 3 scuba tanks and gear. We all thought She was going to have a heart attack!
Clay,
Didn't know you were a diver! I dive and would love to get into spear-fishing... just have to move to a different part of the country first.
I like the cabinet quite a bit; game scenes acid-etched into glass would stick out like a sore thumb in my place but this would fit right in.
I like the open space above and below the actual cabinet body for open storage capacity.
Looking for something discreet, just might work!
Upon first glance, I thought it was just a bad camera angle, but apparently it really is that narrow. I agree that the idea of have storage space above and below is a good thing, but it needs to be wider and have more space inside for more guns. It still wouldn't fit in anywhere in my house, but it wouldn't stick out like my current safe either.
I like the look. Since it is wood, it could be finished to match the decor. Another nice feature is that the bottom of the cabinet is elevated what seems to scale to about 14-18" off the floor, placing the firearm at arm's reach level for ease in taking the gun in and out of the cabinet. Nice, Phil
besides the colors i like it. put a drawer on the bottom, make it bigger and change the color and i would buy it
The thinking of this young man is refreshing. I believe that there are more good ideas out there to provide security for our firearms other than a safe weighing as much as a pickup. I don't get a break on insurance with a safe since I live in the country, and only a 5% discount because of a home alarm system. Why? The average response time is about 15 minutes for police and we have a volunteer fire department.
Kinda looks like it was designed by IKEA. Too Scandanavian modern for me, but if he keeps building 'em he has likely a good home business for himself. He is at least using quality woods and that counts for a lot.
I plan to install a built in gun cabinet when we get our house extension built. I want it to dissapear into the wall if I want.
A bit Norse for my tastes, but young Kasper's skills are undeniable. It would seem that the gunsafe majors could provide us with a little more form to go with our function' but I guess the real beauty is after all on the inside.
Jeeze and then some ,.
and if I had it to over again.
Pretty sure I would have built things,. all kinds of things from cabnets,. boxes and cases,.. to bildings.
I just love it ,. it looks a little office-ee so contemporary can fit ,. but the idea to elivate and change the look / feel is fun. (maybe not my taste exactly,. but fun !!)
That design ( slightly modified) would be good for a plethora of things,
Skis and boots to boomarangs and wine bottles.Or an anuslary pantry off the kitchen or bar.
COOL ,. VERY COOL !!!
fory cal if I learned one thing,.
in school
Form always sooner or later follows fuction.
But yiou can disguise it some : )
It is a little on the scandahoovian side too ,. so maybe thats why i lijed it ,. as in right now liked it.
Hmmm ?? ,. good point !
WAM's remark concerning the elevated storage area is worth consideration. A friend owns a ranch about 80 miles from town. He normally only is able to go there on weekends. One Saturday he arrived to find that a water pipe had burst in his absence and his basement contained about six inches of water as did his gun safe full of varmint rifles and trap guns. Not pretty.
Bella
Good to see you posting! Long time, no hear. I'm surprised the Scandahoovian look is not to your Norse liking! LOL
Yohan
i figured your old Norwegian a$$ would like it! Me too.
Ishawooa
That is why my gun safes are located on the second floor! The bastards would get a hernia hauling them down the stairs!
WAM
Looks more like a liquor cabinet to me; from a 007 movie perhaps? Not my cup of tea, but kudos to the young man's design!
Looks more like a liquor cabinet to me; from a 007 movie perhaps? Not my cup of tea, but kudos to the young man's design!
Bella, where have been hiding at, thought you fail off a cliff or something!
I like it. Let's pretend I'm robbing your house. I'm not after your suits, that's what it looks like it houses.
Bella, this is scary, you read my mind! Seriously, It might be fine for a James Bond vodka martini bar, but I think a gun cabinet should reflect the quality of the arms I would like to display in a furniture grade cabinet. I'm thinking English Walnut.
I can hide my synthetics in the safe.
This is a cabinet my wife would let me keep in the living room! It does need to be able to hold more guns though.
Good to see you Bella.
It does not look like a gun cabinet which is good also.
He classifies it as a "'Contemporary Studio Piece." I classify it as "ugly."
Bella ~ IKEA, good one shooter! Where the hello have you been? Stirrin' the pot somewhere else, no doubt!
My grampa's "Gun Cabinet" was the closet in the guest bedroom. It held a Remington Targetmaster single shot .22, a Marlin 336 RC in .30-30 Win in a sheepskin "leg of mutton" case and a Stevens 16 ga SxS. The three fulfilled all his needs.
I, on the other hand, have various arms in my closet and can always "manufacture" a need for another caliber, action, make, etc. etc. etc......
Very nice cabinet, like others, it needs to be about six foot wide.
Bubba
A nice piece of work by young Kasper. Looks a bit Japanese in design to me, and wouldn't fit well in my 1773 Cape. Being a Joiner myself ( and old school ) I built a corner cabinet out of some ancient chestnut planks purloined from my attic floor about 20 years ago. Mortised unetched and unbeveled glass into the front doors so I could look at part of my collection without a bias.
Have always felt that if some poor fool wanted to break in, he'd have to face a real bad ass with two mean dogs and a sawed-off double 12. And thats my wife !
Years ago (another time, another state) I needed a secure place to store my guns,knives, etc. In doing some remodeling I had the contractor make a space in a wall in a hallway leading from bedroom to bathroom. The usable space was seven feet high with a floor footprint of 36" X 30". Lots of space for shelves, hooks, pegs, etc. It locked with a solid 60"x24" oak wood door 2" thick with a deadbolt and disguised on the outside with a same size mirror on a piano hinge with a touch release and framed by wood trim. In six years not a single person ever knew or even guessed that it was more than just a mirror for my wife to adjust her skirt/makeup that was hung in a convenient place on the wall.
A very well to do friend has a false wall built into his house. You would never know it was there unless he showed you. It is easy to open and there are no visible seams. Behind it is his gun case.
To win a design contest, it would have to look "goofy" Stuff that looks good to ordinary folks doesn't win. I agree that it might be passed up by a would be thief, because it doesn't look like a gun cabinet. I might build something like it, although more utilitarian.
The most secure gun safe/cabinet is one no one knows is there!
A friend had a hidden room for guns, you went thru his bedroom to what looked like a storage room/den type room which you assumed was the rest of the upstairs. But behind a few boxes (empty glued together boxes too) was a steel door that led to the gun room. As a diversion he had a gun cabinet downstairs with a few cheap guns in it.
Most people never knew he had (literally) hundreds of guns upstairs.
PHIL, DIFFERENT TOPIC. BEEN WATCHING GUN NUTS AND AM CONFUSED. DURING YOUR REVIEW OF THE A-400, MAXUS, AND 1100 YOU STATED THEY WERE ALL THE SOFTEST SHOOTERS EVER. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AS I HAVE LEUKEMIA(I HAVE TALKED TO YOU ABOUT THIS BEFORE). I WANT BACK IN TO THE SHOTGUN SPORTS AND HUNTING. DOC SAYS I NEED THE LOW RECOIL TO BE ABLE TO DO IT. I AM REALLY COUNTING ON YOUR INPUT BEFORE I SPEND THE CASH. I WAS AN O/U GUY BUT MY DOCS A HUNTER AND HE SAYS NEED SOMETHING LESS.THANKS IN ADVANCE.
It is a really nice case in a yuppie, preppy sort of way. It would not fit in my gun room decor. Sort of stick out like a sore thumb.
to first bubba; I found a targetmaster 22 a few years ago, but the stock had been sawn off, any idea where i might get a new one
To TBARTOS42 you may want to try putting an after market recoil reducer on any shotgun you buy They are god-awful ugly, but they really work well at reducing recoil
Yuk YUK
WAM assuming you are in your thirtys ,. somone who is pushin 60 mught seem, old to a whipper snapper
yuk yuk ,.
But I aint old ,. ( just ask the Frauline who is 42 : )
I just lived quiet a while .
and one "H" of a lot longer than those who were tracking my existance pre 20's ever expected .
My father in additon to and prior to becoming a gun
smith ( which is really an artistic machinist) was also a cabnet maker,. and a knife maker.
Now ,. being his son dosnt ,make me any more of a gunsmith cabnet and kife maker than I would have made him a stock broker ,.
But given enough exposure to anything unless severely retarded you learn something . IE: I actually made knives and cabnets ,.and can dink aroud with minor gun rpairs but ,make no claims as to a "smithy" aside from that.
However, put an engineering background togther with a little carpenty cabnet building experiance and you got me .and I know what I know .
Its a box with doors that holda things ( IE storage)
But I liked the design /style cause it clearly functions in more than one application and it looks good.
Have to start calling you WAM ,.the whipper snapper ; )
I like the looks of the furniture aspect but not as a gun cabinet. To me a gun cabinet should either be secure and made of steel and bolted to the floor like the one I have in a walk in closet, or something to show off the guns with a glass door so you can look at grandpa's model 1912 or dad's humpback every time you walk past it.
It might throw off a burglar for a moment or two but most houses I have seen that were broken into were completely trashed with the offending parties ripping out drawers and throwing them into the center of a room as quickly as they can. They most certainly would pick up a planter or concrete block and gain access to whatever was inside this piece of art and destroy it in the process. Honduran Mahogany with a tung oil finish and glass doors would have been my choice.
You'll say what you want. This boy is on to something.
When I went to look for a gun cabinet for my 14 long guns all i could find was, well, old gun cabinets.
With this guy's talent he could make it hold a hundred long guns and in design, it looks like he might could satisfy, almost all of you.
I congradulate him and encourge him to follow up on it.
I for one like the idea and design. I would like the unit to be made of case hardened steel and fireproof to about 2,000 degrees F. but with a walnut veneer on the doors. As for securing the unit, bolting it to the studs in the wall in at least two places, four bolts in all from the inside of the vault portion so they cannot be seen. A determined crook may naturally think it may be an entertainment center and try to break through the doors, but the 'safe' produced with this thought in mind can eventually frustrate the crook who, in most cases is a smash and grab sort of moron. In any event, even if you have a modest collection, your home should have a burglar alarm installed. This has my vote of approval. Good job Mr. Kasper. I am sure you will find a market for your products/ideas. At least one right here.
Its a great piece for what he was trying to do. Don't know many hunters that would want that as a functioning gun case though. But it does look cool. I have a much more traditional gun case.
looks like it would tip over easy
TURDYPOINTBUCK
an da yuppers ya ?
The cabnet is probabaly recessed from side panels enough to hold a cleat which is screwed or (lagged ) to studs.
Aside form that your right it would be a little tippy.
Yohan,
LMAO (that would be a YUK YUK to you!)
I tilted over the 60 mark last year. Never thought I'd make it that long either. So I feel no guilt calling anyone else old! Ain't as good as I once was, but as good once as I ever was...
Thank you all for your concern, I've been recovering from surgery and hope I'll be recovered enough for deer season soon.
I tend to prefer Scandanavian archaic to Scandanavian Modern, but guys have quite a few very good ideas. The best arms locker really is the one you never know is there. Good hunting fellers.
I do plan to hobble out to my range this Labor day weekend and get some plinking in, it is the anesthetic effect of gunfire related endorphin rushes I want (besides I ain't shot that ole Kar98 near enough yet)
I am remise ,. bella good to hear form you again
and a speedy recovery ,. my prayers such as they are worth are with you.
WAM ( tilting over 60 last year ) you got me
but not by a hellofalot ; )
I get a fair amount about someone from what and how they write ,. the verbiage ,. thought tracking
rythem and syntax ( sp ? )
Im a bad typest but by not (real) stupid.
Think your a guy I could have a drink with ,.
and Im pretty dam particular who I drink with.
Have a good weekend and stay out of trouble young whiper snapper : )
Bella
Best belated wishes for a speedy recovery! Sorry to hear of your illness. I was beginning to wonder why I had not seen you in the politcal fat chewing on Message Boards. Best of luck during deer season up your way.
Best regards
Yohan
I'll take you up on that drink if we ever cross paths. Have a great weekend, what's left of it anyway
WAM
Holy Guacamole, deadeye!
The first thing that comes to my mind is Rhinehart/Fajen! I know that might be a bit expensive, but if you're in need and can't find anything else!
Have you tried Rem? They may have a replacement lying around somewhere.
If the remaining stock has the original inlet pattern, you might find somebody that had a copier (not Xerox!) that can at least semi-inlet you a stock!
I know that somewhere out there, somebody has either a replacement or can make a replacement!
My Targetmaster, though it shows wear and tear, is complete. The only thing missing is the step for the rear sight. I keep it as clean and dry as possible and even shoot it now and then! It is still very accurate!
Bubba
it one hell of a cabnet but in ontairo canada it wount be allowed because there are not properly locked up.
Not into contemporary furniture (or contemporary anything for that matter), but a very original design.
Actually I'm a fan of the design! It is a bit small for someone like me who owns a lot of guns but here's my thought. Depending on how much it costs, I might get 2 or 3 and put them in different areas of the house so in case someone breaks in (I've already installed home security systems so less of a chance but nonetheless...) I can be ready to take them down! Don't expect me to ask any questions if I see you in my house :) no joke
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Kinda looks like it was designed by IKEA. Too Scandanavian modern for me, but if he keeps building 'em he has likely a good home business for himself. He is at least using quality woods and that counts for a lot.
I plan to install a built in gun cabinet when we get our house extension built. I want it to dissapear into the wall if I want.
Looks more like a liquor cabinet to me; from a 007 movie perhaps? Not my cup of tea, but kudos to the young man's design!
I like the look. Since it is wood, it could be finished to match the decor. Another nice feature is that the bottom of the cabinet is elevated what seems to scale to about 14-18" off the floor, placing the firearm at arm's reach level for ease in taking the gun in and out of the cabinet. Nice, Phil
As a former custom cabinet and furniture maker, I like it! Would of like to see all natural finished walnut that was steamed and aged.
not bad. i also would like to see it hold more guns and the color kind of throws me off.
I like the looks of it. It doesn't look like a gun cabinet, so somebody(theif) that was looking for guns wouldn't necessarily look too hard at it. My only question is how do you secure it? To the wall?
I suppose a fellow could always make a larger version to hold more guns. The thought that occurred to me upon initial viewing was that a burgular might not recognize it as a gun cabinet and maybe would not open it. Of course a gun safe if preferable if you can afford one or more. Even though I don't cater to the styling I can see that some people might really like it.
Kinda reminds me of my locker while stationed at Kadena Air Base Okinawa. Because of my job, had to stay close to Aircraft Maintenance Control so I had to live in the barracks. New Commander had to have an open locker inspection and you should of seen Her face when I opened it up my locker. 5 foot spear gun and 12 inch blade diving knife, 3 scuba tanks and gear. We all thought She was going to have a heart attack!
Upon first glance, I thought it was just a bad camera angle, but apparently it really is that narrow. I agree that the idea of have storage space above and below is a good thing, but it needs to be wider and have more space inside for more guns. It still wouldn't fit in anywhere in my house, but it wouldn't stick out like my current safe either.
besides the colors i like it. put a drawer on the bottom, make it bigger and change the color and i would buy it
Jeeze and then some ,.
and if I had it to over again.
Pretty sure I would have built things,. all kinds of things from cabnets,. boxes and cases,.. to bildings.
I just love it ,. it looks a little office-ee so contemporary can fit ,. but the idea to elivate and change the look / feel is fun. (maybe not my taste exactly,. but fun !!)
That design ( slightly modified) would be good for a plethora of things,
Skis and boots to boomarangs and wine bottles.Or an anuslary pantry off the kitchen or bar.
COOL ,. VERY COOL !!!
WAM's remark concerning the elevated storage area is worth consideration. A friend owns a ranch about 80 miles from town. He normally only is able to go there on weekends. One Saturday he arrived to find that a water pipe had burst in his absence and his basement contained about six inches of water as did his gun safe full of varmint rifles and trap guns. Not pretty.
I like it. Let's pretend I'm robbing your house. I'm not after your suits, that's what it looks like it houses.
My grampa's "Gun Cabinet" was the closet in the guest bedroom. It held a Remington Targetmaster single shot .22, a Marlin 336 RC in .30-30 Win in a sheepskin "leg of mutton" case and a Stevens 16 ga SxS. The three fulfilled all his needs.
I, on the other hand, have various arms in my closet and can always "manufacture" a need for another caliber, action, make, etc. etc. etc......
Very nice cabinet, like others, it needs to be about six foot wide.
Bubba
A very well to do friend has a false wall built into his house. You would never know it was there unless he showed you. It is easy to open and there are no visible seams. Behind it is his gun case.
This cabinet looks kinda goofy to me.
Clay,
Didn't know you were a diver! I dive and would love to get into spear-fishing... just have to move to a different part of the country first.
I like the cabinet quite a bit; game scenes acid-etched into glass would stick out like a sore thumb in my place but this would fit right in.
I like the open space above and below the actual cabinet body for open storage capacity.
Looking for something discreet, just might work!
The thinking of this young man is refreshing. I believe that there are more good ideas out there to provide security for our firearms other than a safe weighing as much as a pickup. I don't get a break on insurance with a safe since I live in the country, and only a 5% discount because of a home alarm system. Why? The average response time is about 15 minutes for police and we have a volunteer fire department.
A bit Norse for my tastes, but young Kasper's skills are undeniable. It would seem that the gunsafe majors could provide us with a little more form to go with our function' but I guess the real beauty is after all on the inside.
Bella
Good to see you posting! Long time, no hear. I'm surprised the Scandahoovian look is not to your Norse liking! LOL
Yohan
i figured your old Norwegian a$$ would like it! Me too.
Ishawooa
That is why my gun safes are located on the second floor! The bastards would get a hernia hauling them down the stairs!
WAM
Bella, where have been hiding at, thought you fail off a cliff or something!
Bella, this is scary, you read my mind! Seriously, It might be fine for a James Bond vodka martini bar, but I think a gun cabinet should reflect the quality of the arms I would like to display in a furniture grade cabinet. I'm thinking English Walnut.
I can hide my synthetics in the safe.
This is a cabinet my wife would let me keep in the living room! It does need to be able to hold more guns though.
Good to see you Bella.
It does not look like a gun cabinet which is good also.
Bella ~ IKEA, good one shooter! Where the hello have you been? Stirrin' the pot somewhere else, no doubt!
A nice piece of work by young Kasper. Looks a bit Japanese in design to me, and wouldn't fit well in my 1773 Cape. Being a Joiner myself ( and old school ) I built a corner cabinet out of some ancient chestnut planks purloined from my attic floor about 20 years ago. Mortised unetched and unbeveled glass into the front doors so I could look at part of my collection without a bias.
Have always felt that if some poor fool wanted to break in, he'd have to face a real bad ass with two mean dogs and a sawed-off double 12. And thats my wife !
Years ago (another time, another state) I needed a secure place to store my guns,knives, etc. In doing some remodeling I had the contractor make a space in a wall in a hallway leading from bedroom to bathroom. The usable space was seven feet high with a floor footprint of 36" X 30". Lots of space for shelves, hooks, pegs, etc. It locked with a solid 60"x24" oak wood door 2" thick with a deadbolt and disguised on the outside with a same size mirror on a piano hinge with a touch release and framed by wood trim. In six years not a single person ever knew or even guessed that it was more than just a mirror for my wife to adjust her skirt/makeup that was hung in a convenient place on the wall.
To win a design contest, it would have to look "goofy" Stuff that looks good to ordinary folks doesn't win. I agree that it might be passed up by a would be thief, because it doesn't look like a gun cabinet. I might build something like it, although more utilitarian.
The most secure gun safe/cabinet is one no one knows is there!
A friend had a hidden room for guns, you went thru his bedroom to what looked like a storage room/den type room which you assumed was the rest of the upstairs. But behind a few boxes (empty glued together boxes too) was a steel door that led to the gun room. As a diversion he had a gun cabinet downstairs with a few cheap guns in it.
Most people never knew he had (literally) hundreds of guns upstairs.
It is a really nice case in a yuppie, preppy sort of way. It would not fit in my gun room decor. Sort of stick out like a sore thumb.
to first bubba; I found a targetmaster 22 a few years ago, but the stock had been sawn off, any idea where i might get a new one
To TBARTOS42 you may want to try putting an after market recoil reducer on any shotgun you buy They are god-awful ugly, but they really work well at reducing recoil
I like the looks of the furniture aspect but not as a gun cabinet. To me a gun cabinet should either be secure and made of steel and bolted to the floor like the one I have in a walk in closet, or something to show off the guns with a glass door so you can look at grandpa's model 1912 or dad's humpback every time you walk past it.
It might throw off a burglar for a moment or two but most houses I have seen that were broken into were completely trashed with the offending parties ripping out drawers and throwing them into the center of a room as quickly as they can. They most certainly would pick up a planter or concrete block and gain access to whatever was inside this piece of art and destroy it in the process. Honduran Mahogany with a tung oil finish and glass doors would have been my choice.
You'll say what you want. This boy is on to something.
When I went to look for a gun cabinet for my 14 long guns all i could find was, well, old gun cabinets.
With this guy's talent he could make it hold a hundred long guns and in design, it looks like he might could satisfy, almost all of you.
I congradulate him and encourge him to follow up on it.
I for one like the idea and design. I would like the unit to be made of case hardened steel and fireproof to about 2,000 degrees F. but with a walnut veneer on the doors. As for securing the unit, bolting it to the studs in the wall in at least two places, four bolts in all from the inside of the vault portion so they cannot be seen. A determined crook may naturally think it may be an entertainment center and try to break through the doors, but the 'safe' produced with this thought in mind can eventually frustrate the crook who, in most cases is a smash and grab sort of moron. In any event, even if you have a modest collection, your home should have a burglar alarm installed. This has my vote of approval. Good job Mr. Kasper. I am sure you will find a market for your products/ideas. At least one right here.
fory cal if I learned one thing,.
in school
Form always sooner or later follows fuction.
But yiou can disguise it some : )
It is a little on the scandahoovian side too ,. so maybe thats why i lijed it ,. as in right now liked it.
Hmmm ?? ,. good point !
Looks more like a liquor cabinet to me; from a 007 movie perhaps? Not my cup of tea, but kudos to the young man's design!
He classifies it as a "'Contemporary Studio Piece." I classify it as "ugly."
PHIL, DIFFERENT TOPIC. BEEN WATCHING GUN NUTS AND AM CONFUSED. DURING YOUR REVIEW OF THE A-400, MAXUS, AND 1100 YOU STATED THEY WERE ALL THE SOFTEST SHOOTERS EVER. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AS I HAVE LEUKEMIA(I HAVE TALKED TO YOU ABOUT THIS BEFORE). I WANT BACK IN TO THE SHOTGUN SPORTS AND HUNTING. DOC SAYS I NEED THE LOW RECOIL TO BE ABLE TO DO IT. I AM REALLY COUNTING ON YOUR INPUT BEFORE I SPEND THE CASH. I WAS AN O/U GUY BUT MY DOCS A HUNTER AND HE SAYS NEED SOMETHING LESS.THANKS IN ADVANCE.
Yuk YUK
WAM assuming you are in your thirtys ,. somone who is pushin 60 mught seem, old to a whipper snapper
yuk yuk ,.
But I aint old ,. ( just ask the Frauline who is 42 : )
I just lived quiet a while .
and one "H" of a lot longer than those who were tracking my existance pre 20's ever expected .
My father in additon to and prior to becoming a gun
smith ( which is really an artistic machinist) was also a cabnet maker,. and a knife maker.
Now ,. being his son dosnt ,make me any more of a gunsmith cabnet and kife maker than I would have made him a stock broker ,.
But given enough exposure to anything unless severely retarded you learn something . IE: I actually made knives and cabnets ,.and can dink aroud with minor gun rpairs but ,make no claims as to a "smithy" aside from that.
However, put an engineering background togther with a little carpenty cabnet building experiance and you got me .and I know what I know .
Its a box with doors that holda things ( IE storage)
But I liked the design /style cause it clearly functions in more than one application and it looks good.
Have to start calling you WAM ,.the whipper snapper ; )
Its a great piece for what he was trying to do. Don't know many hunters that would want that as a functioning gun case though. But it does look cool. I have a much more traditional gun case.
looks like it would tip over easy
TURDYPOINTBUCK
an da yuppers ya ?
The cabnet is probabaly recessed from side panels enough to hold a cleat which is screwed or (lagged ) to studs.
Aside form that your right it would be a little tippy.
Yohan,
LMAO (that would be a YUK YUK to you!)
I tilted over the 60 mark last year. Never thought I'd make it that long either. So I feel no guilt calling anyone else old! Ain't as good as I once was, but as good once as I ever was...
Thank you all for your concern, I've been recovering from surgery and hope I'll be recovered enough for deer season soon.
I tend to prefer Scandanavian archaic to Scandanavian Modern, but guys have quite a few very good ideas. The best arms locker really is the one you never know is there. Good hunting fellers.
I do plan to hobble out to my range this Labor day weekend and get some plinking in, it is the anesthetic effect of gunfire related endorphin rushes I want (besides I ain't shot that ole Kar98 near enough yet)
I am remise ,. bella good to hear form you again
and a speedy recovery ,. my prayers such as they are worth are with you.
WAM ( tilting over 60 last year ) you got me
but not by a hellofalot ; )
I get a fair amount about someone from what and how they write ,. the verbiage ,. thought tracking
rythem and syntax ( sp ? )
Im a bad typest but by not (real) stupid.
Think your a guy I could have a drink with ,.
and Im pretty dam particular who I drink with.
Have a good weekend and stay out of trouble young whiper snapper : )
Bella
Best belated wishes for a speedy recovery! Sorry to hear of your illness. I was beginning to wonder why I had not seen you in the politcal fat chewing on Message Boards. Best of luck during deer season up your way.
Best regards
Yohan
I'll take you up on that drink if we ever cross paths. Have a great weekend, what's left of it anyway
WAM
Holy Guacamole, deadeye!
The first thing that comes to my mind is Rhinehart/Fajen! I know that might be a bit expensive, but if you're in need and can't find anything else!
Have you tried Rem? They may have a replacement lying around somewhere.
If the remaining stock has the original inlet pattern, you might find somebody that had a copier (not Xerox!) that can at least semi-inlet you a stock!
I know that somewhere out there, somebody has either a replacement or can make a replacement!
My Targetmaster, though it shows wear and tear, is complete. The only thing missing is the step for the rear sight. I keep it as clean and dry as possible and even shoot it now and then! It is still very accurate!
Bubba
it one hell of a cabnet but in ontairo canada it wount be allowed because there are not properly locked up.
Not into contemporary furniture (or contemporary anything for that matter), but a very original design.
Actually I'm a fan of the design! It is a bit small for someone like me who owns a lot of guns but here's my thought. Depending on how much it costs, I might get 2 or 3 and put them in different areas of the house so in case someone breaks in (I've already installed home security systems so less of a chance but nonetheless...) I can be ready to take them down! Don't expect me to ask any questions if I see you in my house :) no joke
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