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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 23698579, member: 135271&quot;]My birthday was just last month, and for a gift my wonderful wife told me she wanted to get me a nice coin cabinet! I had been looking at ones for sale online, but could never bring myself to pull the trigger due to price - the sizes I was interested in seemed to start at around $550 - so we decided to buy materials and I could make one myself, instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>Planning the project took a little while since I wanted enough room to store all my coins and still have plenty left over for future use. I figured 10 or 12 trays, maybe 40 coins per tray would give me lots of growing room. I also wanted to take the time making sure every detail was thought out so I wouldn&#039;t run into any unforeseen mistakes halfway through.</p><p><br /></p><p>Off to the local lumber store! I had fun looking at all the $$$ exotic furniture-grade hardwoods for sale. Mahogany is of course the gold standard, but it is also very expensive; plus I kind of wanted a darker wood to contrast with the felt/coins. I ended up going with walnut.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next few weeks were spent cutting the boards to size, planing, sanding, drilling nearly 500 holes, gluing, nailing, putty, router edges, sanding again, assembling the trays, last sanding, finishing, installing the tray knobs, and then letting the box and trays air dry with a fan for about a week or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime I had ordered a copious quantity of die-cut felt circles of the correct size. I ended up making 10 trays with 40 holes 1.625&quot; in diameter and 2 trays with holes 2.125&quot; in diameter for larger coins, medals, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>The felt circles shipped from overseas and I was disappointed that the color chart on the website did not exactly match the color in reality. I wanted red and what I got was more purplish-maroon. I may be getting a replacement set but, in the meantime, I couldn&#039;t wait the couple weeks it took to ship and just used the ones I had. They&#039;re not too bad, I guess. I couldn&#039;t find 2.125&quot; felt circles so just ordered 2&quot; instead; those are more the vibrant red I was looking for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I finally finished it! It was a fun woodworking project and I really enjoyed making it all from scratch. I couldn&#039;t be happier how it all turned out (felt color aside) and will have a lot of fun filling it up with new coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Photos: (Please excuse the messy kitchen table...)</p><p><br /></p><p>The finished product!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_03/IMG_20230318_153535.jpg.f787034897f60aa9665e8469bf93defd.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom 2 trays are the larger sized:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_03/IMG_20230318_153546.jpg.4a403b556eb97c072802121fc04972c2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>The trays are riding on 1/4&quot;x1/4&quot; strips I ripped from some of the leftover walnut boards. A couple trays of Roman coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_03/IMG_20230318_153747.jpg.5756058dcf68e937f4e3e482029bcc0c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Tray of non-ancient coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_03/IMG_20230318_154117.jpg.cbc8a0b0fa3de0fcf8e815a2ff2e1f89.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a tray of Roman coins that has been removed from the case. All the trays are made from one-piece walnut boards:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_03/IMG_20230318_153839.jpg.d2f3f209f61b7f9ffb68805915b4f2ad.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Everything is 100% walnut.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the task will be to catalog my entire collection and put little label slips in with each coin. I&#039;m thinking of assigning a personal collection catalog number to each coin and having a binder with pages containing each coin&#039;s information - which will be a lot more than I could put even on a 2x2 flip insert. I&#039;ve done a couple coins already, but right now I&#039;m really still trying to think exactly how I will want to organize everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best birthday gift ever? I&#039;d say so! [ATTACH=full]1546649[/ATTACH] I feel very blessed to have such a thoughtful wife. [ATTACH=full]1546650[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post you own thoughts &amp; comments![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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