If you ask me, that's a good idea Aragorn....., to be waiting to meet the daughters new boyfriend....... stood there with a revolver in your hand. Just a subtle way of lettin' him know that you're a caring parent
Short term I installed laminate floor underlament. Here is the result. Any ideas on how to secure the drawers to offer some small measure of security? The only idea I have come up with is drilling thru the entire cabinet verticaly and droping some sort of locking rod thru the drawers. I know this would only delay entry but I want to do something.
what are you supposed to do if the boyfriend goes "nice '16 BSA, but why do you have a siamese pattern '20 with slazenger grips on the front?"
back to the cabinets, hooked, that looks really nice. (but the OCD side of me is screaming 'çause 3 of the bayonets have the mounting ring on the left when all the others are on the right)
have you considered making wooden chairs to sit the bayonets on? if you covered them in flocking they could look rather nice.
flocking:
it might look a little over the top, you could cover the laminate in velvet too. if you got really bored you could line the draws with flocked pegboard and put pins on the chairs to fix them in place but allow them to be re-arranged. (btw none of my collections are arranged neatly but you are obviously willing to but in the time)
+1 on the OCD. Very pelimanary on the lining I think I will at least cover the pad with some green felt. I thought about chais of some type but the drawers are very shallow.
what are you supposed to do if the boyfriend goes "nice '16 BSA, but why do you have a siamese pattern '20 with slazenger grips on the front?"
Reply hear is $50 to take said daughter to dinner and "Welcome to the family."
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Sadly, this young fellow said that indeed, he does have an interest in knives and has a small collection. He had one with him. A Buck folding knife that the tip was broken off of. I really didn't have the heart to tell him his "girlfriend", my daughter, has an excellent example of said knife among her hunting gear. It did not impress me.
PS: Her older sister and I both have the same model in used but excellent shape.
Just a quick comment based on long experience. DO NOT use felt or any other normal cloth as a liner in the drawers. 1. It will soak up any oil or grease and stain the cloth. 2. The cloth will draw moisture if the room it is in has high humidity as in some parts of the country, and this can cause rust. Less of a problem if the material is a polyester material or the like - I know someone who uses an indoor-outdoor carpet with success.
I have two different systems in my storage. For most drawers I do use the non-slip material used in mechanic's tool chests. This also helps keep them from sliding around inside when the drawer is opened and closed. I store many of the "shorter" bayonets in a used mechanic's multi-drawer chest that I got cheap at a garage sale as they fit well in the smaller drawers. To make it look a little better in the room, I covered a lot of the outside of it with wood grain contact paper.
I do have a larger chest much like some of those shown earlier. In some of its drawers I put in wood strips with simple slots. The wood is sealed with two coats of satin polyurethane to keep out moisture and that has worked OK for the last 20 years or so.
Nice job, I have a mate who got a similar cabinet from a boatyard where I assume it was used to to store plans, Candle wax is the time proven method of lubricating wooden drawer runners.
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