Gun Cabinet Plans And Blueprints For A Strong Show Case

These gun cabinet plans and blueprints will help you construct an attractive show case this is both aesthetic and functional.

It’s constructed of cherry plywood and strong cherry.

Long hands are stood in the top case, pistols displayed inside the lower case.

Supplies and ammunition may be stored in the two drawers underneath.

With safety in mind, the higher and decrease doorways are equipped with locks, as are the drawers.

The glazing is effect resistant acrylic sheet.Gun Display Case Construction Plans With Instructions

• The gun cupboard is in reality two separate instances constructed from cherry plywood.

  To make every case seem like it's far constructed from stable lumber, side bands are glued to the the front part of every case panel.

  The drawer fronts and doorframes are strong cherry.

  The first step in case construction is to difficult reduce the plywood into smaller panels that you then cut to finished size on a table noticed .

  The rough cut is made with a circular noticed.

  Be sure to place the plywood in order that the surface that will become the outside is going through down.

  The completed cuts are made at the table saw.

  To make the angled cuts at the decrease case pieces, take each rough-cut panel and nail a three/eight x three/four x 24-in.-lengthy tack strip to it as a manual.

  The tack strip rides in the noticed’s miter gauge slot.

  To position the tack strip appropriately, first nail a positioning strip to the panel after which butt spacer blocks to it.

  Butt the tack strip to the blocks, and nail it in vicinity.

  Slide the tack strip into the miter gauge slot, and feed the panel through the blade.

  The subsequent step is to cut the dadoes and rabbets inside the case panels with a router and immediately bit.

  When reducing the dadoes for the horizontal panels, be sure to apply a 23/32-in. immediately bit because that is the actual thickness of three/4-in. plywood.

  Mark the position of the dadoes on each side panel and make a dado jig to guide the router.

  Note that the jig uses a pair of manual rails which are spaced aside with the aid of a distance same to the router’s width.

  The two manual rails are mounted with crossrails at either cease, and those are located so the panel slides snugly between them.

  Use the router and the panel to place the rails.

  To reduce the dadoes, clamp the jig in vicinity and run the router proper through the crossrails at either give up.

  This guarantees a nice clean cut with out a tearout at both give up of the dado and a dado of the exact width wished.

  Next, use a smooth-cutting blade to tear the threshold strips.

  Cut them to completed length, follow glue to them and the panel edges, after which keep them in place with covering tape.

  Drive a tiny half-in. 20-ga. brad near the end of every strip to help keep it in place.

  When the glue has dried, cautiously plane the strips flush to the panel’s surface, and use a chisel to reduce the strip away on the top corner of the decrease case.

  Before assembling the case, recall to bore holes for the low-voltage lighting fixtures within the horizontal panels of the top case.

  Also, make the crossrails for the higher case.

  The higher case sides, crossrails and horizontal panels are glued and clamped together.

  Drive screws through the case facets and into the horizontal panels.

  Do the equal with the decrease case–in each times the screws could be hidden with the aid of the moldings.

  Mark, reduce and deploy the stiffeners within the upper case.

  Note that the stiffeners are notched behind the top rail and the left one is mortised to clear the hinge leaf.

  Cut and quickly install the back panel, after which cut the shallow wiring recess inside the top horizontal panel.

  Glue, clamp and screw the lower case aspects to the horizontal panels.

  Next, connect the beveled higher and decrease center rails with glue and screws.

  Note that the drawer divider isn't always completely hooked up in the lower case till after the drawers are installed and the locks are installed within the drawer fronts.

  The cupboard’s dentil molding is made with a router and a 1/2-in.-dia. directly bit.

  Bolt a fence to the router’s base fifty three/sixty four in. from the bit.

  Rip the molding stock and joint its edges so they may be parallel and the ends rectangular.

  Make the first dado reduce, pass the fence into the groove, make the second cut and keep on in this style until the molding is entire.

  Make numerous passes at the router desk to reduce the thumbnail molding on the dentil’s decrease side.

  1–Use a strip of timber and a couple of blocks to place the guide strip at the case side.

  2–To reduce the attitude on every side panel, slide the manual strip inside the miter gauge groove and push the panel thru the blade.

  three–Use a router with a immediately bit and a parallel fence jig to cut the rabbets and dadoes inside the case sides.

  four–The aspect banding is glued, and held in area the usage of masking tape.

  A pair of brads in every band maintains it from slipping.

  five–The side banding blocks the rabbet on the pinnacle of the decrease case.

  Use a chisel to pare away the edge band at this point.

  6–Glue and clamp the case sides to the horizontal panels and drive screws into the upper and decrease panels.

  7–The dentil molding is reduce the usage of a router with a guide strip screwed to its base.

  The strip rides within the formerly cut dado.

  8–Cut the molding on the decrease fringe of the dentil molding the use of a router table and a cove raised-panel bit.

  Cut the relaxation of the moldings for the cupboard on the router table, then rip them off at the table noticed.

  Attach the moldings to the case, beginning with the dentil.

  Clamp it in place, and mark its miters.

  Bore pilot holes in it for alignment nails.

  Glue and clamp the molding and force the nails via it.

  Attach the facet dentil moldings inside the same sequence.

  To follow the ogee molding above the dentil, comply with the equal collection, but don’t nail the molding to the case.

  Attach it to the dentil molding with nails from above.Supports, Doors, Drawers And Lighting

  Make the butt-rest panel, then bore 2-in.-dia.

  holes in it, and noticed out the waste among them.

  Trim the cutouts the use of a router and flush-trimming bit.

  Run the router in opposition to a plywood fence clamped to the panel.

  Cut out the barrel rest, bore a chain of one-in.-dia.

  holes in it, and make a chain of cuts tangent to the holes the usage of a sabre saw.

  Make the pistol platform, cowl it with felt and depart it aside to be hooked up after the cupboard is completed.

  Next, rip and crosscut the door rails and stiles.

  Mark the centerlines on the pieces, and use a dowel jig to bore holes in both the rails or the stiles.

  Insert dowel centers inside the holes and align the elements the use of a framing square.

  Press the components collectively (Photo 12), and use a dowel jig to bore holes on the marks.

  Insert dowels inside the holes, then glue and clamp the meeting.

  Sand the doors the use of a random-orbit oscillating sander.

  Cut the glazing rabbets in the doors, and reduce the molded edges on them.

  Cut the door’s glazing strips, and spherical the strip ends to match the rabbets.

  Buy acrylic glazing reduce to size, then sand the glazing’s corners to suit the rabbets.

  Install the glazing after the case is finished.

  Now, lay the top and lower instances on their backs, and quickly set up the door hinges.

  Lay each door in region over the hinge.

  Press down on the door, in order that a small dimple on the hinge marks the hinge’s role on the door .

  Remove the door, and lay it at the workbench.

  Position a hinge at the dents and use the hinge as a template to bore the screwholes.

  Rip, crosscut and joint the drawer parts, then cut the rabbets and grooves within the components.

  Also reduce a half circle in every drawer field for lock clearance.

  Glue and clamp the drawer bins.

  Make the drawer fronts and bore a lock hole in every.

  Install the drawer slides in the case consistent with the producer’s directions.

  Mount each drawer box in its slides and power four drywall screws via each drawer front.

  Hold the drawer front in the front of the drawer packing containers and press the drawer front in opposition to the drywall screws to mark the drawer front location on the box.

  Bore pilot holes on the marks, mount the locks at the drawer fronts, and set up the drawer fronts.

  Mark the vicinity of the lock cam levers on the drawer divider and on the bottom of the pistol compartment shelf.

  Remove the divider and shelf, and then cut the mortises to house the lock cam lever.

  Now stack the cases, clamp them together and bore holes for the connecting bolts.

  Bolt the 2 instances collectively and punctiliously finish-sand.

  We carried out coats of Watco Cherry Danish Oil Finish, observed by coats of semigloss polyurethane.

  The finish became applied at the doorways, drawers and case meeting one by one.

  Install these components when you are through making use of end on them.

  The pistol compartment shelf, the glazing inside the doorways, the gun helps and the plywood returned panels are set up after completing.

  The very last contact is to put in three-mild, 20-watt halogen Combilight kits.

  The product is bought at domestic facilities and lighting fixtures showrooms.

  9–Cut the ogee moldings on the edge of a extensive board, then rip the molding off the board on the desk saw.