New Gun Rack

[tbonesmith]

So I got sick to death of having some of my nice rifles crowded into a safe, risking damage, having to remove bolts, and target sights etc, etc. Yes I could get another safe, but I've always wanted a rack to display some of my stuff, so yesterday I built one.
It holds 12 rifles with ample room so none of them touch each other with bolts in, bayonets fitted and sights on.
I might build another bigger one too, for the other wall in my gun room.
I just used 16mm cover sheets of HMR MDF, I am using it unfinished, clean face out, but I might paint it one day if I could be bothered.

I made a router jig, using a tracing collar, for the rounded cutout to fit the fore end and cut one of the long sets. Then I used an inverted flush trim bit in the router to copy this set to fit the butts.
I then ripped these down to finished depth, and used a 5mm radius rounding over bit to round the appropriate edges.
I then made the carcass, and jigged up the rifle holder sets, fixed these off, and put on a back.
Then I fixed it to the wall, 300mm of the ground, and filled it up with some of my favourites.

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