What do you recommend for storage of bags ,horns etc? I'm not sure which is best.

[toot]

thank,s for the reply. I will check it out,as I have to go there to get a light fixture, toot.

 

[Bob McBride]

Toot, here's what I did with most of that fencing (the fencing itself is actually about 50 years old). My wife got the wall she wanted in her mudroom and I got the leftover for my display. The other walls you see are shiplap board. You can get it in all sorts of colorizations including with a nice weathered look as said above.

 

[Hawk78]

Thanks Smoke. You know what’s funny? Almost my most prized possession in this whole display is the black rifle poking straight out of the wall just below the hunting sword. It’s a solid brass 18th century gunsmith’s shingle hanger. It was hung above or next to the door of an urban gunsmith’s shop with two chains that hung from the sling and held the business sign. c1770. Perhaps English. Still has the nubs where the chains hung. (The sling is also solid brass). I’ve never seen another one.

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Way cool

 

[Hawk78]

Toot, here's what I did with most of that fencing (the fencing itself is actually about 50 years old). My wife got the wall she wanted in her mudroom and I got the leftover for my display. The other walls you see are shiplap board. You can get it in all sorts of colorizations including with a nice weathered look as said above.

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I was a carpenter 19 years, from 16 years old to 34. The mud room is very cool and the ceiling. is the ceiling tile the old tin type or the new? I like the floor as well. Great job!

 

[Bob McBride]

I was a carpenter 19 years, from 16 years old to 34. The mud room is very cool and the ceiling. is the ceiling tile the old tin type?

Thanks! It’s tin yeah. A real pain to put up but it looks awesome.

 

[Hawk78]

Thanks! It’s tin yeah. A real pain to put up but it looks awesome.

Yes it does, looks very awesome. And I bet it was very, very tedious to install, lol, but worth every hour. I'm planning re do all my bedroom and bathroom walls with some type of boards. We just put down some very decent water proof floor throughout the entire house. It is a plastic type of planking that looks very old and rustic, with scatches and wood grain. They did an awesome job installing it and it actually looks like an old rustic darker colored floor similar to your wall. I'm thinking really hard about getting rough sawed 1 x6 or 1 x8, rent a electric planner and put that on my walls.

 

[Hawk78]

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Very cool collection sir!

 

[Hawk78]

I recommend nailing old grey fencing to your wall while your wife is at the grocery store.... You need a plan and you've got to work fast.

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Man, I love this collection and display!

 

[tom mesa]

Very cool collection sir!

Thanks, almost everything there is home-made.

 

[shortstart]

Store your horns long-term sealed in plastic - those vacuum sealing clothes bage are appropriate. The idea is to completely isolate the horn from the outside world. I haea a horn I made in 1970 in High School. It's nothing fancy, but it was my first and I was proud of it. It was put into stoage for many years, and when I retrieved it, it was chewed up by larvae from something related to tiny flour beetles. I can repair it by filling the damage with tinted epoxy, then refinishing it. It is a plain horn, but if it had any scrimshaw or carving, restoring it would be a monumental task.

Cedar shavings works really well.

 

[Dances With Coyotes]

I recommend nailing old grey fencing to your wall while your wife is at the grocery store.... You need a plan and you've got to work fast.

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Love your channel

 

[Bob McBride]

Love your channel

Thanks for the kind words Madjack! I appreciate it!

 

[Nameless Hunter]

I recommend nailing old grey fencing to your wall while your wife is at the grocery store.... You need a plan and you've got to work fast.

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