Another project completed - a clock for my reloading room

[M1NM]

Put it in the living room. I reload to forget what time it is.

[newbie1234]

We have winner for first price. The second price goes to the cabinet handle with shotgun shell.

[Abenaki]

That is so cool. thanks for sharing.

Take care
Abenaki

[Odd_Ball]

Nice work. I also like the gun rack you can see in the reflection!

[ClayBreaker]

Very cool!

[the86d]

She is a beauty, good work!
A++

[bigbossman]

Nice work. I also like the gun rack you can see in the reflection!

Well...... good spot. I need to take you along when glassing for deer.

That gun rack was sort of ancillary to another, smaller project. I have the electrical breaker box in my reloading room, and for some reason the builders left it exposed on the wall. I needed something large to cover it up but still keep it accessible, and since I'm a big Winchester and western movie fan I figured a movie poster would be just the thing. And what better movie than Winchester '73 with Jimmy Stewart?

So, I bought a re-pop poster that was on stretched canvas over a wood frame, hinged it on one side, and mounted it over the panel with a magnetic closure on the other side. Viola - a hidden panel that was still easily accessible. Now the problem was that it was sorta fixed in position, with a bit of blank rather not-easily-usable wall space that had a thermostat and phone jack (remember those?) in awkward spots. I pondered how best to address this for a good while, and then the thrift shop came to the rescue.

I found the rifle rack you spotted in the reflection, sitting in the corner of a local thrift. Dusty, dirty, scraped up and in need of repair....... so naturally I brought it home. A screw here, some wood glue there, a light sanding followed up with a few coats of satin varnish, and it really came to life.

As an aside - the varnish was an unopened and more or less vintage can that I picked up at a yard sale for 50 cents a year or so ago. You know, the good stuff before they started changing the formula to make it less deadly and more environmentally friendly. . It took a bit of stirring to get it viable, but it came back to life just fine and fulfilled its destiny with aplomb.

The problem of what to do with the wall and thermostat/jack was solved, and I got to display a few of my Winchesters along side a Winchester movie poster. Bonus!!

[Whiterabbit]

A while back, I came across a big round clock (22" diameter clock face) in the thrift store. I wanted a clock for my reloading room, so for $7.99 I dragged it home and cleaned it up. Then I had an idea.....

I used an old Highpower 200 yard off-hand target that I had saved from back when I used to compete, and used .308/.38spl brass for the hour/minute markers.

Just finished it today, and it looks pretty good.

Ok. Now I have a project for after the kids going to bed.

[MechaDad]

Thanks for sharing OP.

The next time the sky falls and everyone is panic buying water & toilet paper, my wife is gonna ask me why I keep buying broken junk from the thrift store. "Advanced level prepping honey."

[alpha_romeo_XV]

Very nice touch OP with the shot pasties.

I put these on the wall in my man cave reloading room. When the wife asked me why I told her they remind me of you dear since they're only a little uneven.

[bigbossman]

Very nice touch OP with the shot pasties.

When you're shooting the off-hand slow fire portion of a Highpower match, the targets are pulled down, pasted, and marked with your shot value after every round by a target puller. They paste the bullet holes after every shot so it is easy to see and score the next one. The shooter is 200 yards away from the target, and relies on a spotting scope and a good target puller to see where his last shot landed. A large white disk on a peg is placed in the current (last) shot for record, and the shot fired previously is is pasted.

I could have pulled them off, but it wouldn't have been "as-fired".

[M1NM]

Thank goodness you didn't use 9mm or 45acp.....we would have had endless arguments over which one best represents minutes.....

:-)

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45 = minutes
9mm = seconds

[Odd_Ball]

Well...... good spot. I need to take you along when glassing for deer.

That gun rack was sort of ancillary to another, smaller project. I have the electrical breaker box in my reloading room, and for some reason the builders left it exposed on the wall. I needed something large to cover it up but still keep it accessible, and since I'm a big Winchester and western movie fan I figured a movie poster would be just the thing. And what better movie than Winchester '73 with Jimmy Stewart?

So, I bought a re-pop poster that was on stretched canvas over a wood frame, hinged it on one side, and mounted it over the panel with a magnetic closure on the other side. Viola - a hidden panel that was still easily accessible. Now the problem was that it was sorta fixed in position, with a bit of blank rather not-easily-usable wall space that had a thermostat and phone jack (remember those?) in awkward spots. I pondered how best to address this for a good while, and then the thrift shop came to the rescue.

I found the rifle rack you spotted in the reflection, sitting in the corner of a local thrift. Dusty, dirty, scraped up and in need of repair....... so naturally I brought it home. A screw here, some wood glue there, a light sanding followed up with a few coats of satin varnish, and it really came to life.

As an aside - the varnish was an unopened and more or less vintage can that I picked up at a yard sale for 50 cents a year or so ago. You know, the good stuff before they started changing the formula to make it less deadly and more environmentally friendly. . It took a bit of stirring to get it viable, but it came back to life just fine and fulfilled its destiny with aplomb.

The problem of what to do with the wall and thermostat/jack was solved, and I got to display a few of my Winchesters along side a Winchester movie poster. Bonus!!

Lol, thats awesome. The hinged canvas frame poster looks ridiculously simple to make and inconspicuous. And it looks good.

[painkiller]

Very cool idea indeed.what adhesive did you use to make it stick to the paper

[bigbossman]

Very cool idea indeed.what adhesive did you use to make it stick to the paper

I used 3M medium strength spray adhesive on the clock face side, and then carefully laid the target down. I cleaned all the brass with rubbing alcohol, and then mixed up some 5 minute epoxy. The epoxy worked great - those cases are not coming off without pulling some clock-face along with them.

All the rounds are dummy rounds of course, just bullets seated in brass with dead primers.