hod Posted February 26, 2021 Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 Anyone have one or make one? Looking at getting or having made a corner grandfather clock, and putting in a gun cabinet in the body (so the clock face/mechanism would be just be a modern clock, not pendulums etc). From looking online they’re a crazy price. Surely a cabinet maker would be able to make a shell of it at a reasonable price? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted February 26, 2021 Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 TEAM TRACTOR where are you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B725 Posted February 26, 2021 Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 You mean something like this, my mate did it for me for around 80 quid all I did was supply the clock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbird Posted February 26, 2021 Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 I do like that 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udderlyoffroad Posted February 26, 2021 Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 2 hours ago, hod said: Surely a cabinet maker would be able to make a shell of it at a reasonable price? What’s your idea of reasonable? Cabinet makers will be charging a daily rate which has to cover workshop overheads and the like, so any job with a high fiddle factor on site; I.e. scribing into corners will have some fat built in lest you lose your profit... I know that’s now what you asked for, I.e. a basic carcass, but expectations of what a basic ‘shell’ is can vary considerably. Also, I couldn’t find on a quick google any corner steel cabinets to use as a basis. You could of course use a standard cabinet, and secure it to your wall through its sidewall, but then surely the shell has to grow in size to accommodate a conventional safe, secured to one side, as it were? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted February 26, 2021 Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 Our Stateside friend Nobody Important would need a casing like Big Ben’s tower to fit his cabinets inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted February 26, 2021 Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 5 hours ago, B725 said: You mean something like this, my mate did it for me for around 80 quid all I did was supply the clock. thats pointless..............there is no way the pendulum can swing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B725 Posted February 26, 2021 Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 Its a very short pendulum but it keeps perfect time. The top is fixed by two magnetic clips so I can swap the battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted February 26, 2021 Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 59 minutes ago, London Best said: Our Stateside friend Nobody Important would need a casing like Big Ben’s tower to fit his cabinets inside. 🤣🤣🤣 @NoBodyImportant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted February 26, 2021 Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 1 hour ago, London Best said: Our Stateside friend Nobody Important would need a casing like Big Ben’s tower to fit his cabinets inside. 😂 truth, luckily in our current gun shortage I been selling stuff left and right for 3 times what I paid for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hod Posted February 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 9 hours ago, B725 said: You mean something like this, my mate did it for me for around 80 quid all I did was supply the clock. Yes, very much like that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hod Posted February 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2021 8 hours ago, udderlyoffroad said: What’s your idea of reasonable? Cabinet makers will be charging a daily rate which has to cover workshop overheads and the like, so any job with a high fiddle factor on site; I.e. scribing into corners will have some fat built in lest you lose your profit... I know that’s now what you asked for, I.e. a basic carcass, but expectations of what a basic ‘shell’ is can vary considerably. Also, I couldn’t find on a quick google any corner steel cabinets to use as a basis. You could of course use a standard cabinet, and secure it to your wall through its sidewall, but then surely the shell has to grow in size to accommodate a conventional safe, secured to one side, as it were? I’ve seen a couple online for 2-3 grand plus, way out my budget. Granted one was large and very plush looking. I do realise a cabinet maker isn’t going to be charging me £20/hour, but I’m a fair way off £3k for a cabinet. My guns total value is comfortably less than that! I’ve not really thought through the corner aspect. I guess a standard one just sitting in the corner but bolted through a solid triangular piece of timber behind it may work... that may require more thought on my part... But as above, really I’m not looking for much more than a carcass into which I can put the cabinet, and a clock on the top. A lighter, more modern oak or similar maybe. I’ve not been able to find any sort of standard cabinet I can try and bastardise either, yet. I’m no woodworker mind you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUNKS Posted February 27, 2021 Report Share Posted February 27, 2021 16 hours ago, NoBodyImportant said: 😂 truth, luckily in our current gun shortage I been selling stuff left and right for 3 times what I paid for it. But how will you keep away the rampaging horde if you dont have enough fire power?😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeastpete Posted February 27, 2021 Report Share Posted February 27, 2021 Sit your cabinet in the corner and measure the triangle behind. Have a local welder make two simple triangles of flat steel bolt these to the corner, bolt cabinet to them. Screw some battens to the wall either side and then a front panel, and a top panel. Make door, cut hole for clock. Add a few bits of trim, stain a nice colour, buff it up with some wax. Job done 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted February 27, 2021 Report Share Posted February 27, 2021 2 hours ago, DUNKS said: But how will you keep away the rampaging horde if you dont have enough fire power?😀 I feel like 20-30 guns is enough in a apocalypse 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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