last weekend I picked up another old wooden slide box for a quid in the retro/antique shop in Ramsbottom. I've already got two that i have restored after gutting to hold art supplies as they are a handy size and always dirt cheap. this one was slightly older than the other two having wooden rather than plastic slide holders and once they were out just needed a light sand and a couple of thin coats of satin yacht varnish.
A couple of years back I picked up a Webley Mk VI .177 air pistol and I was still storing it in the cardboard box it came in. I'd looked at original boxes for the real .455 pistol but since they are now collectors items and well over a hundred quid a pop decided to do like a friend did and cobble together one myself, What hed done is picked up a old cap firing flint lock pistol on a flea market and used a old, pre 1960s, cutlery box to make a display case for it as a present for his son. He did a rather good job of it and so Id been vaguely looking for a similar box myself. however none turned up and since this slide box ws deep enough I thought Id use it.
I've worked out where the deviders need to go and the size of the wooden block to take the pellet holders/ fake bullets. They will be easy enough to whip off on the band saw. However I've hit a wall with regards to the wool rich green baize I want to line it with. I just need a couple of square foot of it at most and new it it is both prohibitively expensive and only available in 1.5 by 1 metre lengths or multiples there of. A few place sell off cuts but only of the high end stuff and it worked out that even if i bought just enough for this job it would be 20 quid! Back as a student I acquired a big piece of baize from when they were recovering a pool table but over the intervening 30+ years that's been used and shared with others until there's only some small scraps left.
So does any one have some wool rich green baize I can beg, buy or swap? or know of a cheap source? the stuff with lots of synthetics in has not responded
well to getting oil on it.
The biggest bits I need is to cover the top and botton inside which are 19cm x 31cm in new money.
ATB
Tom
A couple of years back I picked up a Webley Mk VI .177 air pistol and I was still storing it in the cardboard box it came in. I'd looked at original boxes for the real .455 pistol but since they are now collectors items and well over a hundred quid a pop decided to do like a friend did and cobble together one myself, What hed done is picked up a old cap firing flint lock pistol on a flea market and used a old, pre 1960s, cutlery box to make a display case for it as a present for his son. He did a rather good job of it and so Id been vaguely looking for a similar box myself. however none turned up and since this slide box ws deep enough I thought Id use it.
I've worked out where the deviders need to go and the size of the wooden block to take the pellet holders/ fake bullets. They will be easy enough to whip off on the band saw. However I've hit a wall with regards to the wool rich green baize I want to line it with. I just need a couple of square foot of it at most and new it it is both prohibitively expensive and only available in 1.5 by 1 metre lengths or multiples there of. A few place sell off cuts but only of the high end stuff and it worked out that even if i bought just enough for this job it would be 20 quid! Back as a student I acquired a big piece of baize from when they were recovering a pool table but over the intervening 30+ years that's been used and shared with others until there's only some small scraps left.
So does any one have some wool rich green baize I can beg, buy or swap? or know of a cheap source? the stuff with lots of synthetics in has not responded
well to getting oil on it.
The biggest bits I need is to cover the top and botton inside which are 19cm x 31cm in new money.
ATB
Tom
