A few of my wood working prodjects

Oh you laugh.....I made the one in the pic. Just needs new rope.

My wife came home from work one day and showed me one she found online and wanted to buy. At $125 I told her I could build it for less. $60 and some elbow grease later we had a 6' tall 3' wide cat tower with 4 levels and 8 scratching posts that looked the same as the one she wanted to buy.

Nice, I like them all. Is that acrylic or glass you used for the front of the display cases? And how did you fasten it? Curious minds want to know.

I love seeing other's work. I consider myself an amateur but have done a little of my own. This is a display case I built. I also did the paneling on the walls and the bookshelves. Still not quite finished - some of the trim still needs to be added/finished as well as the ceiling.



I also built these shelves to fit in our stairway. One of the reasons for the glass/acrylic question is because these are acrylic panels I put on the front of two of the sections, but I need to find a better/easier way to attach and/or remove them (as you can probably tell, I also still need to finish the wiring for the lighting).

Thanks, think I have fixed the picture.

Yes, that was the other issue with the acrylic - it is VERY expensive - and really not that good for the purpose either. I also used screws to fasten the acrylic but it is a pain every time you want to get in and out of the case. I put inserts into the wood for the screws to go into so I could remove and replace the screws without affecting the wood around it but it is still a pain - I at least recognized the fact that I would want to get in and out when designing the thing but not how it would be affected by the material used. Glass would have been much better but the mounting would have been more difficult - to begin with - but much easier in the long run. If I had to do it again I would not go the acrylic route.

You have some skills Steve! I love your work. Maybe thats what I need to do, is to make my own display cases instead of paying alot for Carney cases. Only thing is even though I have an interest in woodwork and maybe metalwork, I just don't know how to do any of it.

Awesome work Steve Thumbs up ... Someday I need to get to the hardware store and get busy on mine.

Looks as though the scratching posts are doing there job.... I rather come home and see a post scratched up than my furniture :'(

Great cases bro I woiuld love to have a coiuple like that

Duncan, maybe when you create another display you can experiment with making a track to fit the glass in. You know like those ones they have for baseballs and stuff, of course yours would be a little more elaborate but I think in the long run you would be very happy with it. My ollies has those display cases all the time for the 1:24 scale cars, baseballs, dolls, flags, etc. I picked up a few for Dan a few years back fairly cheap, if memory serves me correctly they were around $8 or $9 a piece now they raised the price of them to $14 or $15, I will have to check again when I go back there. But all and all Duncan I think you did a great job. Keep up the good job guys I really enjoyed the pictures... I can show you the pictures of my creativity but I don't think you want to see a fluffy bunny I made for my daughter... LOL

Wow Duncan, Congrats on two more granddaughters. IDK how you do it I can barely handle my only Daughter who is 13 going to be 14 in July. She is a handful. I love to create different things, but my husband wont let me handle power tools he says if I use a power tool he would be scared. I have no clue why it isn't like I would go around cutting people up like in the Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Crazy

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I know I love to see the " How To " pics Thumbs up

Oh geeesh Duncan.... You now have a Mini Football Team