Presentation Box Colt 1851

[SIGP2101]

Originally posted by Lyn Islaub
Very nice. You might consider going into production, as I would hazard to guess almost every one of us has a 'special' Luger we would like to see in a case as nice as this one.
Lyn

Certainly that is an idea, but the box like this would not come out cheap. It is labour intensive, and first class hardware was used. There are no â??made in chinaâ?� parts involved in building this box, and no power tools used. Why no power tools, simply because hands leave some character to it, and it so clearly distinguished from machine industrial work. Little imperfections are always present, and there are so common in boxes build in 19 century. There was no plywood used and there was no veneering applied to this box. It is been chiselled out of solid piece of walnut. Even dividers inside this box are made out of the same solid wood. No fast drying stains used on this box but just 8 coats of Tung oil. Inside compartments are covered in two kinds of felt, top and the bottom is real wool felt, very hard to find and very expensive, compartment dividers are covered in self adhesive felt you can get in craft stores.
I donâ??t know yet but idea was to built 10-20 of these boxes over the winter, and hit local gun show just to feel if there is a market for them. But every firearm would require custom built box accordingly. It will be a very hard to standardise/streamline production line. With amount of hours put in building something like this which will eventually go down with more boxes built, I would charge anywhere between 250-300 CAD for the Colt box, Luger Box would be probably 30% cheaper because it would be smaller and simpler and it would involve some machining to reflect appropriate time.
If people show some interest I may even get involved in building these boxes. The thing is I have full time job and two small kids with all that goes with it. I was able to build this one box within one month working only 1hour at the time during the evening. It was nice and relaxing work before bead time.

Thanks for your support, all of you. It is encouraging to see that people with real fine sense of quality (colectionars) see something worthwhile repeating. If anyone becomes interested in this project please drop me a line. It would be very curious to se how much of the interest this could generate.