Next homemade storage box. This time for 1911A1

[bripro]

This is just a few pictures of another storage box I made with a theme. I purposely did it with real simple construction to keep with the look I’m going for. I originally had Phillips head screws but decided to find slotted instead to try to keep it looking older. A good suggestion a friend made was to drill a few holes in the side for knotted rope handles to mimic a larger crate. The pistol is an Auot Ordnance but someday perhaps a genuine surplus pistol may reside in it. If anyone has any recommendations for it or suggestions for the next one please let me know. Thanks for looking, Brian

[Emptymag]

That's awesome. (I can be hard to impress with this sort of thing)

Maybe a few "dings" in the wood to give it a "used" look?

[Gunsnwater]

Looks good. I like the theme.

[Noah_Zark]

May I suggest adding the NSN to the lid lettering?

1005-00-726-5655

Great work!

Noah

[bripro]

Great suggestion, thank you.
The you original guy I bought the stencil from could only do 13 characters per line and didn’t have the tack ( - ) character. I just found one that can do the full NSN though.

[jthrelf]

Very cool! Start selling them...

[Noah_Zark]

I actually looked into that but I couldn’t find anyone that makes stencils that had the tack ( - ) character. Also the two places I found only offer 13 characters per line.
Great suggestion by the way, thank you.

Buy four shorter stencils with the number groups, and get a small piece of stencil board from them and cut your own tic. Stencil a number group and a tic every day, and in four days you're done. Put down a strip of 1" or 3/4" masking tape below the bottom edge of the stencils to use as a guide line.

Noah

[streaker69]

I happen to know someone, right here in Lancaster that has a stencil machine. I could probably get any stencil made that you want.

[fritz1919]

Nice! I like it!

How did you cut the foam with such a smooth finish?

[bripro]

Honestly I didn’t. I just transferred it from the cardboard box the pistol came in.