Cookie Jar Display: Who Does This?

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I'm thinking about this, glass jar of some sort, type of display for Buck knives. Keeps the dust off, can be seen easily and unique in my experience. Kid attraction aspect might be an issue. Who does this? Who might do this?
 
Oregon,

My wife just made a home display like that but with fancy rocks inside and a big candle in each, now on top of TV cabinet. You could get some fancy rocks, line the walls of the jar with Buck knives and fill in around and behind with the fancy rocks. (Fancy rocks are just basically small washed rocks). That might keep some kid factor down as trying to mess with knife will mess up rocks and evidence to convict to no game boy prison.

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300Bucks said:
Oregon,

My wife just made a home display like that but with fancy rocks inside and a big candle in each, now on top of TV cabinet. You could get some fancy rocks, line the walls of the jar with Buck knives and fill in around and behind with the fancy rocks. (Fancy rocks are just basically small washed rocks). That might keep some kid factor down as trying to mess with knife will mess up rocks and evidence to convict to no game boy prison.

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Bury my prized cutlery in rocks! You first. :)

I've seen things encased in solid clear hardened resin, like insects in Amber, but retrieval would be problematic...

I was fortunate enough to receive a vacuum sealer as a Birthday gift. This might be the smallest possible display space: Contour fit (brainstorming 2 day).
 
oregon said:
Bury my prized cutlery in rocks! You first. :)
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My same thoughts about a pile of knives crammed into a jar. Do you have any wall space?

Here is what some of my display cases are like. Easy access, plastic cover keeps the dust off, on the wall out of kid reach.


The plastic cover is hard for me to shoot photo's due to glare, so I took it off for this shot.

jb4570
 
Really outstanding looking protective displays JB. Thank you for the photos.

I'm over here on the ring of fire so earth quakes can happen so, I'm hyper about the cutlery, even my free-standing cabinet display is wired to the wall but I don't have wall-mounted shelves.

This house, post and beam construction, survived the Spring-break quake years ago, before any cutlery was on display. Lucky.
 
Hi Steve,

I live in central CA, earth quake central, 3.0 hit yesterday centered 15 miles from my home. These cases are bolted to studs and molly bolts in the sheetrock the entire wall will fall before these cases fall. That said, the plastic covers can be locked in place with a screwed in block of wood, I don't feel it's needed. The covers fit is tight and they have never moved even a little. The other side of the wall is the end of our hall and the kids & Grand-kids bounce off that side of the wall often while at play in the house. The covers stay in place, the 3 and 5 knife stands move a little; but, the cover stays put.
jb4570
 
I've done it with ornaments.

My late grandmother gave me a Christmas ornament every year, attached to my gift. I put them in a cookie jar, and as i stacked them, I used tissue paper in middle to keep them against the sides and viewable. Now, they protected from my 2 year old and I display it on the mantle.
 
I have a celluloid handled Case peanut I keep displayed in a small Kraft cheese jar with a sealable lid mainly due to celluloids bad habit of outgassing without warning. I'd really be hacked to find my little suicide bomber took out 30 or 40 other knives it was in close contact with if I didn't separate it from the rest.
 
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