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Custom Relic Wood Boxes - What do you Use to Store your BP supplies?
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Those globes break easily, especially when hit with a cleaning rod.
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Here's my idea for storage.
I make my boxes using period joinery, either dovetailed or doweled. Box joints are a product of the last quarter of the 19th century. Dovetails have been used for joinery for over 3000 years and work with or without glue. Butt joints and dowels are even older.
Here is a picture of my first dovetailed box made with a jig and router. I made a dozen mistakes but managed to salvage it. I keep this around to remind me where I started. I keep working to learn to cut dovetails completely by hand as the old-timers did. I'm not there yet.
Here is a picture of my first dovetailed box made with a jig and router. I made a dozen mistakes but managed to salvage it. I keep this around to remind me where I started. I keep working to learn to cut dovetails completely by hand as the old-timers did. I'm not there yet.
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Bill Bryan
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I use an old carpenters tool box for the range. It's big enough for rifle and pistol "stuff" along with my spotting scope. Bill
Cruzatte
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I use a Plano tackle box.
So do I, two of them in fact, along with a milk crate of stuff. The closest range charges $20 plus $5 per gun. I spend the day there with multiple firearms, so tend to take everything I might need. Sigh, I miss the days I could walk out the back door and just shoot.
I want to build a Gerstner styled range box someday, but it's low on the need-it list as the plastic boxes do for public ranges.
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Harbor freight has a gerstner nock off that is pretty cheap. When there is a sale it is usually around 69 bucks. I use one for Parts and cleaning supplies for my BP. 8 Drawer Wood Tool Chest
I've looked at those for years and they still strike me as too flimsy. Some I've looked at have been poorly assembled, some better assembled, but still not the best construction techniques.
I probably should just buy one and put it on my workbench and see how it holds up. Worst case is that I'll break it...which means bite the bullet and build my own. Maybe I can learn to cut decent dovetails by the end of the build.
I'll go look at them again next time in town. Thanks for the reminder.
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I’ve become a minimalist.
Johnny Tremain
Silversmith in training
I told my neighbor who is a master wood worker to make me a colonial pine coffin box.
So he made me a square pine box. Inside was a picture of a 1700s coffin which was a rectangular box, not later 1800s style coffin style.
Dang PC old man
So he made me a square pine box. Inside was a picture of a 1700s coffin which was a rectangular box, not later 1800s style coffin style.
Dang PC old man
Comfortably_Numb
The Evil Mike Brooks
"Back in the day" I used what I thought was period correct stuff. Now I don't give a hoot and use a plastic takle box or a fancy new range bag. I still have all the cool old boxes, They are just too heavy.
Those are Beautiful. Love the panel cover in the middle.
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Nice work, did you airbrush the ships?
At my regular BP shoot most shooters use modern tackle boxes or wood cabinets. I decided to go primitive and made a simple wood crate. I tend to be the most HC person there.
My neighbor gifted me an old machinist’s tool box that his father in law had bequeathed him. I had no real need for it until I realized it would be very useful storage for BP revolver accessories and necessities. Everything fits, though I limit the amount of lead I take to the range for an outing as the box gets too heavy.
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I’ve gone back and forth from too big to too small. Guess you could say I have too boxes.
I just love those old Machinist's boxes.
