Long Rifle Chest

[Kermit]

I've had it in mind for some time to build a "huntboard" as a rifle stash. I want to do it like this photo, but only the bottom center drawer would function, and the top would hinge up. Problem is, there's no room in the 'downsized" house.

[Tim Crosby]

very nice.    so is what is on the wall next to the chop saw

 I make a Bow ever once in awhile, Long, R/D, Recurve, Wood and laminated FG. TC

[Tim Crosby]

I've had it in mind for some time to build a "huntboard" as a rifle stash. I want to do it like this photo, but only the bottom center drawer would function, and the top would hinge up. Problem is, there's no room in the 'downsized" house.

 I saw an original that was very similar.
 Here is another, I was going to put it up one legs but decided not to.












  Tim C.

[rogerpjr]

Beautiful Tim,as with most all your work.  But why didn't you make the lock too?  I have seen a couple books on making the locks and I think there was an episode of The Woodwright's Shop where the blacksmith at Williamsburg showed briefly how they were made.

[smokinbuck]

Tim,
Really nice piece of furniture. Put a cushion on the top and use it for a sitting bench in a man cave. Might even help conceal what it is.
Mark

[Tim Crosby]

Tim,
Really nice piece of furniture. Put a cushion on the top and use it for a sitting bench in a man cave. Might even help conceal what it is.
Mark

 The Blue/Green piece is in the Great room and used for a bench in front of a Large window and has guns in it. The other sits here in the shop with stuff piled on top.

   Tim C.

[smokinbuck]

Beautiful work, wherever you put it.
Mark

[Tim Crosby]

Beautiful Tim,as with most all your work.  But why didn't you make the lock too?  I have seen a couple books on making the locks and I think there was an episode of The Woodwright's Shop where the blacksmith at Williamsburg showed briefly how they were made.

 That is a little more than I want to take on. I get my locks from Horton Brass Inc. They are beautiful Half Mortise Brass Chest locks made in England.
 I do make my own hinges.

 Tim C.

[Joe S.]

I love the idea of this chest, but can't help but think, how convenient for the burglars, all the guns in a nice box that two guys can carry off in one trip. A friend built a stand up version, several years ago,  that was packed off by some riffraff, and then dumped in a ditch, when they found that muzzleloaders are hard to sell, and easy to identify.
  His next project wasn't as pretty but worked better. He converted an old chest freeze into a gun chest. I helped him pull the compressor out of it, and pour the void full of re-enforced concrete. The lid is secured with a repurposed steering rack from a car, and a lug nut wheel lock that uses a special socket, this mechanism engages 7/8" rods that are incorporated into the steel framework that is welded into the lid. It ain't pretty, but when the same guys came back to get all the new stuff the insurance company had bought, they were caught spending too much time trying to get into the hillbilly gun safe.
 
   Hungry Horse

Agree about the ease of some a-holes carrying off your guns.I would bolt it to the wall from the inside or if sitting on the floor perhaps.Did this with smaller stand up style safes.You can't be to care full these days.Darn shame you have to bugger up a fine piece of furniture because you worry about thieves.

[Marcruger]

Good gravy Tim!  The black chest is in your shop with stuff piled on top?  It'd be a prized piece of furniture in someone else's house.  I love the leather work, as my dad has been a leather worker for years. It would look great with the black and white quilt you made draped over the top. 

I have to ask, is there anything you CAN'T do?   :-)   You never cease to amaze me.   You're the Renaissance man for sure. 

Happy Easter!   Marc

[oldtravler61]

Very nice work Tim. (as always) Showed the them to the wife. Yep you guessed it. Another upcoming delay in my gun building forays. After forty years. You would think I would know better!! LOL

[acorn20]

Great looking rifle chest, Tim!  The wife's been wanting a new coffee table but when I showed her the picture of your rifle chest, she said it's too "coffin looking." Sorry!  But then she saw Kermit's picture and said she could live with that in her living room.  So, something with shorter legs might just seal the deal. I'm thinking curly maple top and drawer fronts with a cherry box and legs.

[David R. Pennington]

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 I made a little lock for a box I made a while back. It is a little crude but amazingly it works rather well. Had to see if I could do it.

[Mark Elliott]

Tim,

Since you made your hinges, did you use a jig of some sort to form the knuckles?   If so,  what?  I ask because I want to make a pair of chest hinges for a blanket chest, and I am not sure how I am going to form the knuckles without a third hand to hold a pin.   

[Tim Crosby]

Tim,

Since you made your hinges, did you use a jig of some sort to form the knuckles?   If so,  what?  I ask because I want to make a pair of chest hinges for a blanket chest, and I am not sure how I am going to form the knuckles without a third hand to hold a pin.   

 I made them basically the same way I make a Patch Box hinge using a vice. Difference is  only three knuckles, two small ones on the ends. The Pic is not very good but you get the idea.




  Tim C.

[G. Elsenbeck]

Nicely done Tim and very stylish.
Gary

[David R. Pennington]

Mark, I usually clamp the leaf of the hinge in vise with heated end for knuckle protruding and hammer the stock over the pin stock held in the left hand. The trick is to get the stock cut to the right length. Makes a neater job on heavier material if the stock for the knuckles is cut or forged to a sharp backwards taper so it closes up tighter when you roll it round. A sharper cross pein hammer helps close them up tight. Sometimes I roll the knuckle and cut out the piece or pieces for the other half (like on a patchbox) and some times I split one half and  forge down the other half, depends on the application. If you have a round bottom swadge the right radius you can knock it down in there after it is all assembled and makes a neater job, just keep moving and working while it cools so it doesn't sieze up on the pin.

[Mark Elliott]

Thanks David.   That is exactly what I needed to know.

[B Staley]

Very nice I built one that's a double decker that holds 10 guns will try and get some pictures up of it.

[B Staley]

I found a few of the pictures. I used beaded Cyprus left over from another project.

[Tim Crosby]

 Nice job, I like the Cedar idea. What kind of finish did you use on it?

  Tim C.

[B Staley]

Just some dark stain I had laying around in the shop the drawer and lid are pegged with hidden trim work.

[Tim Crosby]

 Came across this while looking for something else. The one chest with the leather corners and top is still sitting in the shop with stuff piled on it, I didn't realize it had been here so long.... 

  Tim C.

[Marcruger]

Hey Tim. That black chest is still one of the coolest things I’ve seen on ALR.  It’s just fantastic.  Makes me nuts thinking it lives under a blanket in the basement. Your black and white quilt is right up there too.  My stepdaughter made a copy of that quilt for me.  God bless, Marc

[skratch]

Excellent! I like the colors, to me they look period correct.