WOW, a lot of work for two pistols!!!! Good thing your collection isn't 10 or 20..............................

Wow! This is a future collectable. In 100 years, I'd bet that they would never guess that this was designed to house your pistols, since they will have forgotten by then that someone other than the military or police could own them. TH

Scott, dime to a dollar you have more than 60 hours in that. That my friend is top notch. I myself like to work with wood modestly, but if you call yourself an amateur then some of my past work looks like I have training wheels on.

Very, very nice. I could have easily sat and looked at 10 more pics of it. If you have a moment could you post more pics of the eagle on top and explain how it was done?

Regards, Steve.

Eagle Pic
 

Hey Steve - Thanks for the kind words. You may be very correct about the 60 hours....honestly I have no idea...I just remember a lot of trips downstairs to the shop for either 30 minutes or maybe a couple hours.

I'll try to attach a pic of the eagle below. I found the Reichsadler (eagle) online, but after agonizing a bit, I decided to replace the swastika with the Iron Cross. The history buff in me wanted to leave it since the guns are original to WW2 and have the waffenampts on them. However the realist in me didn't want people walking in my house to freak out and think I was a nut if they saw a swastika. I think it's a common peril of this hobby of ours - at least the WW2 era Lugers.

So basically, I modified the image, found a font that I thought felt sufficiently German, and created the design. I had a local company burn the design on through a laser process as I knew any attempt of mine to carve it just wouldn't look great...and I couldn't afford to ruin any more wood....I had made enough mistakes already!

I can only say that it is a beautiful piece of work and underlines your love of gun collecting!
Thanks for sharing the pictures.
George

It is a thing of beauty.
I am also interested in puchasing one of these cabinets, if we can arrange the shipping so as to not get it destroyed in transport.
Where are you located?
thanks
Jack

I'm in Maine...
 

...fortunately, centrally located to the rest of the country :-)

Outstanding woodworking! Thanks for sharing.

Pretty steep for "amateur" work.:thumbup: