It's not much...

It was always my plan to do the plasti-dip thing, just never got around to it. Getting the blades is job one, hanging them is job 2. I focus more on job one although I'm easily distracted.
It sure is nice to rearrange when ever the urge or need strikes ya. I'm still digging my hidey wall and wish I had someplace to put the other stuff in that closet so I could do a series of sliding panels. Would work for knives and guns, whatever. I started hanging sheaths on hooks on the back side.
All a matter of getting more treasures in an already filled to capacity space. Or rat holing for the uninitiated.
 
That's true, I'd lose flexibility if I used a sword rack. I wouldn't need much flexibility if I just put swords on that wall, but I'd like the option to put smaller knives/daggers too.

Good tip on the plasti dip. I've never had very good results with the stuff and it's probably because I only used one coat. I think I need to more thoroughly clean the metal as well.

I like that term, rat holing. No matter how nicely I arrange my stuff at first, it just keeps piling up into a rat hole. Hmm, maybe I should buy less stuff? Naaah...
 
A cheap and effective solution is that clear plastic Tygon tubing you can find at department stores for aquarium pumps etc. You can also get it at hardware stores for about $4 for 10-20 foot coil or so. Cut it to length and just slip it over the pegboard hangers. I think it is 1/4" if im not mistaken. Its clear and wont scratch your handles or blades. Its easy to mess with and wont bleed out color into your light woodies! Take a hanger with you to the store and test fit the stuff. Works great!
 
That's a great idea. I bet shrink tubing from an electronics store might do the trick too... when you heat it up with a blow dryer or hot water it shrinks, so it'd tightly fit the hook. it isn't as thick as aquarium tubing though.
 
Probably work too but it aint cheap. If you get the right size tubing and slip it on wet (spit on it or something) when it dries it will stay tight. Those hangars are usually bent up on the last inch so the bend helps it stay put.
blue lander said:
That's a great idea. I bet shrink tubing from an electronics store might do the trick too... when you heat it up with a blow dryer or hot water it shrinks, so it'd tightly fit the hook. it isn't as thick as aquarium tubing though.
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If a person chewed tobacca would you still recommend spitting on it? Just askin.

I like the tubing idear a lot too. Quicker and easier than the plasti dip stuff. My #1 son got me some really long straight peg board hooks maybe 10" long or better. I cut em and bent em at a bit of an upward angle to hold the blades good. It's working well and I can grab and play with any of them quickly an easily. Having it slide back in the wall seems to be keeping the dust off of them too. I do make a lot of sawdust out in that room too. I think it kind of adds character.
 
So Bawanna, The way I am picturing what I think you are describing is sort of like a set of those sliding closet doors how they slide back and forth across each other so you can have one of the other out "visible" at any time and just slide the other in or out to get to the other stuff on it? Or am I just confusing myself?
 
Sadly it's slide around out of necessity not ingenuity. Sitting full time I have limited height availability. I hate having to ask wife or son's to get me something and then have to have them put it back.
When I built the addition I was vertical, the house was a stepping stone and the man cave was built to be a potential bedroom for future owners.
Switching to a chair right after I had it weathered in all that changed. Had to have friends sheetrock, wire and finish it. I would have done several things differently had I known this was gonna happen. My crystal ball apparently was on the blink that week and I was in the dark.
Like many man caves I suffer from too many treasures in too small a treasure chest. But it don't slow us down much and to me that's a good thing.
 
Ah very close to what I was imagining but far more filled up :) Very good idea for finding more space for wall hanging. Always better in my thought to have a small treasure chest stuffed with treasure than a big empty chest. Definately gives me a long term goal for my collection I would think that every time you go in you re-find something interesting in there. So what are the baseballs? And the top 2 rifles. I don't recognize either of them. And I think the 4th down looks like a 1903 but I can't see the bolt area to tell for sure in any of the pictures. LOL fascinating just looking at all the fun items in the picture.
 
I used to coach little league baseball back in my vertical days.

Top rifle is a Dutch Beaumont Vettali 11mm, weird thing that I love. The second is a 50cal black powder rifle, just a replica, nothing special. The 03 is actually a 1917 Enfield my dad's hunting rifle put back in it's original format. I have the same model that I used as well that was my grandfathers. It was sporterized so couldn't go back.
 
Vettali. Interesting. Definately not something I had ever seen before. I will have to check them out. And an Enfield eh, amazing the similarities. is it .303 like the British Lee Enfields? or is it an American cartridge? I am not terribly fond of .303. messy round and sort of strange recoil compared to the snap of other rifle cartridges.
 
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Vettali. Interesting. Definately not something I had ever seen before. I will have to check them out. And an Enfield eh, amazing the similarities. is it .303 like the British Lee Enfields? or is it an American cartridge? I am not terribly fond of .303. messy round and sort of strange recoil compared to the snap of other rifle cartridges.
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The 1917 is 30-06, it's been said they were the most accurate military rifle ever produced. They don't have the draw that the 03 has but they are nice.
I've only seen one other Vettali in my whole life and that was last weekend at our local gunshow. A relation to Numrich had a table with a bunch of old strange revolvers and a few rifles and one was a Vettali. He gave me some info on a guy I might be able to get a few rounds from. I've never seen a cartridge for it in person.
I really dig old weird stuff. Most folks walked by this table with only a glance. I spent more time there than the whole rest of the show. It was covered with old weird stuff. Nothing I could remotely afford but fun to look at.
 
I think that 1917 is what I had at military high school. The firing pins were all sawed off though. I once saw one snap straight in half when my roomate used one to jam our door closed.
 
LoL I was fortunate enough to start my military career when M14s were the standard. 1917s I am fortunate to say were a bit before my time. I much prefer the 30-06 to the .308 cartridge. Now how would it snap in half? The stock at the grip?
 
Has to be the stock and I'm surprised at that, they are booku thick and strong.

My son just got a Scout Squad, kind of a cut down M14 last weekend, I've wanted one for years and of course they more than doubled 2 elections back for reasons we need not get into.

We have two Full Auto M14's in my armory at work. Used to keep one on my desk all the time till we got a nervous new DC. Bad day that. I refinished them and we used to use them for parade rifles. Don't really have an honor guard any more but not giving them up. They get to the range from time to time for some good fun. I'd love to call one my own.

Even named them Thelma and Louise. I have a good M1 Garand that I cherish, took me a long long time to score what I wanted on that too. Like you've said, part of the fun is the quest.
 
Did you buy the M1 through the CMP? Hubby bought one years ago. I personally prefer the Carbine for M1s the A is a bit long for me to shoot standing comfortably.

Hubby was able to acquire his M25 system since it was semi instead of full so we have a beautiful M14 based 25 with the scope ect. I am a decent spotter and can calculate the shot now just need a lot more trigger time to get comfortable with the wind
 
Mine is a CMP but I bought from a guy, friend of a friend. I also have the carbine, light and handy. Came right out of a friends uncles duffle bag from WWII. I don't think he took it out of the case, its perfect. Got his 42 Colt 1911 too, it shows wear but I love it to pieces.
 
Yup, the stock broke. The poor thing bent like a bow before it finally snapped. It took two very large football players who had to be in their early 20's to get through that door. Everybody was so surprised when it snapped that they must have forgotten why they were pursuing my roommate because they left without doing anything to him.

We also had another model rifle, ww1 or 2 era, that was much longer than the 1917. I don't know the first thing about rifles but from looking at wikipedia I think it was a m1903 springfield. I never fired either model but I much preferred the 1917 for marching around with. It was well balanced. The 1903 was clumsier.
 
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