Excellent work Joe. I would love to have a Luger case made to the same standards. Problem is deciding which one. Such a case for a commercial artillery would be grand.
As a former counterfeiter of eighteenth century American furniture, I have a couple of thoughts you may want to ponder. If using black walnut, as you did, a light prefinish treatment with muric acid will add perhaps a hundred years of patina to the walnut. A great alternative wood is black cherry which begins to darken almost as soon as it's finished and develops an exquisite rich patina in as little as 5-8 years.
As far as power tools, the machine (steam driven) driven band saw was introduced into American furniture manufacture in 1840.
Really great work.
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