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    Hand Gun Cabinet

    The client wanted a movable cabinet for his hand gun collection. He also wanted to be able to rearrange the guns as his collection changes. The cabinet is walnut and the shelves are maple. The cabinet doors are opened with a magnetic key (the mouse-like device in photo) which also serves as the door pull. The magnetic key stows behind the front apron of the base.
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    Very striking piece. The figure on the right-hand door panel is beautiful. I like the "grate" pattern incorporated into the stretcher. Is this your own design? How are the handguns to be oriented on the shelves?

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    Mark,
    Very, very nice. Solid design and execution! Well done Sir.
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    WOW! Stunning eye candy! I love the grain of the walnut.
    The drawers and drawer pulls are exceptional.
    Well done!
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    Mark, that's top quality work. The door panels have great figure and in my opinion the dissimilar left to right appearance adds to appeal of the cabinet. Did you fabricate the magnetic lock? Very clever.
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    what a treat to open this post. Beautiful work, great details. A#1
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    Beautiful wood, great craftsmanship, and a great piece of furniture.

    Would love to see a picture with the handguns in it.......
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    Truly a beautiful piece of craftsmanship!
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    Very nice! Great execution, beautiful walnut. Krenovian inspired?

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    Wow. That is inspirational work. My favorite is the internal drawers. What superb fitting and matching.

    I recognize the absence of any visible hardware. That was an elegant choice.

    Can you share more details about the magnetic key?

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    Prashun Patel;

    Can you share more details about the magnetic key?
    I like to make my own door latches ala Krenov, which I did for the left-hand door. However, after a lot of prototyping my own magnetic latch designs, I punted. I used a TotLoK ( https://www.tot-lok.com/ ) mechanism.

    Because I wanted the key to also serve as a door pull, I needed more magnetic attractive force than I could get with the TotLok mechanism. So I imbedded two 5/8" square nuts (stacked on top of each other) in the door. The totLok was then positioned so that its 1/4" diameter protrusion penetrated the hole in the nuts. Then I embedded two stacked rare-earth magnets ( 1/2" D x 1/2" L) (http://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=D88-N52) in the wooden mouse-like key. These magnets are incredibly powerful providing sufficient pull to open the door when separated from the iron nuts by about 1/4" (3/16" between the face of the door and the iron nuts plus the 1/16" between the magnets and the face of the key).
    Last edited by Prashun Patel; 09-23-2016 at 8:57 AM.

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    I like the cabinet also. Very well executed. I'm curious about the drawer guides though. It seems from the pictures that the drawers guide off each other? Is that the way it is or are there runners / guides internally - just hidden from view?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pat Barry View Post
    ... I'm curious about the drawer guides though. It seems from the pictures that the drawers guide off each other? Is that the way it is or are there runners / guides internally - just hidden from view?
    The drawers reside in drawer pockets - there are no guides. The space between the carcase bottom and the horizontal shelf is divided into the 3 pockets by two 1/2"-thick drawer dividers. The center drawer front has a 1/4" overlay on each side. The two outer drawers have 1/4" inch overlays on their inner sides. The outer sides of the outer drawer fronts are flush. So the overlays completely cover the ends of the drawer divides allowing the grain to flow continuously across the three drawers. The gap between the drawer fronts is very small, no more than 1/32".

    Hopefully this makes sense. If you look closely at last photo, you can see the overlays.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Ketelsen View Post
    The drawers reside in drawer pockets - there are no guides. The space between the carcase bottom and the horizontal shelf is divided into the 3 pockets by two 1/2"-thick drawer dividers. The center drawer front has a 1/4" overlay on each side. The two outer drawers have 1/4" inch overlays on their inner sides. The outer sides of the outer drawer fronts are flush. So the overlays completely cover the ends of the drawer divides allowing the grain to flow continuously across the three drawers. The gap between the drawer fronts is very small, no more than 1/32".

    Hopefully this makes sense. If you look closely at last photo, you can see the overlays.
    Yes - that's great. I missed those details when I looked at the pictures before. Thanks for explaining.

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    Beautiful piece. Excellent execution and attention to detail!

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