Hi, I’ve been busy building my own display case today. It is 193 cm tall and 175 cm Wide. It will when finished have glassdorrs and interior lightning. The shelfs are made out of solid oak that I had speically cut at a store to make 4 inch shelfes.
Here it is:
Magnus
And some more pics:
Magnus
Very Nice. You sure have some nice things to display. Thanks for sharing.
I really like all that B&O stuff.
Just need to ask, how do you plan on building and securing the frame/ track assembly for the sliding glass? Those are some long shelves and the glass will be fairly heavy. Usually for any shelf unit such as this it needs be be built as a cabinet style construction. The outer box and shelves built as a unit with a 1/4" finished back panel. I will rabbit the frame to hide the panel, dado the shelves to the sides, mill any track for glass slides or prep for accesory track for the glass. Grooves can also be cut into the shelf top @ the gauge of the wheels.
This gives you a very strong cabinet that secures/ supports the shelves and a solid unit to hold the weight of glass. The entire unit can then be mounted on many wall studs w/ trim washers. If more structural support is needed a few 3/4 x3/4 cleats can be added under some shelves to secure to wall.
Just some thoughts, coming from a cabinet builder. I’d like to save you any grief when setting any glass. Sheet lexan may be an option also, not plexi as it will scratch too easily, yellow or cloud over time.
I’ve got a small (appox. 35 - 40) case that’s mounted to the bottom of my cart. Check out the pics on my sig link.
Thanks for the advice.
My plan is to put up four doors, each 40 cm wide. But they will not be attached to the shelves themselves but put on individual wooden pieces that are attached to the wall separately. That way the weight won’t be very high on any individual shelf. I’m going to get some doors from IKEA.
Do you think this will work. Please bear in mind that this is the first thing I ever really built.
Magnus
I applaud your efforts
nice wood and looks like a cool idea, I hope it works out, just what we all need is a aplace to show off all our trains, I bet that will make it easy to get ahold of the units for the layout too
good luck and I hope the glass is not to thick and heavy or to thin and will break
K
That is the plan.
I got tired of hiding away my nice collection of engines and passenger cars. This makes it both a pleasure watching them every time I go down the stairs and it also and it makes it easy for me to get a specific item when I need it.
Magnus
Where did you get the plans for this shelf? I am also looking to build similar shelfs for my Caboose collection.
I just bought my wood from a local mill to build my display cabinets. How do you plan to light it?
You can buy connectors, strips of self sticking (sort of) LED’s and a transformer on Ebay pretty cheap. The stickiness doesn’t last, so I used hot glue. You could use a router and put a groove in the top of each shelf for the led’s.
For ideas on how to do it, look at you tube for “gun safe lighting”