Rocky1
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Well for lack of a more appropriate place to put this, I'm going to stick it in the Hand Calls section, if the powers that be think it needs to be elsewhere, put 'er wherever you feel it appropriate.
These images are all clickable thumbnails if you guys want a closer look at any of it. Just trying to be thoughtful of the guys on dial-up since there is a bunch of pictures.
I had posted a picture of my new call cabinet awhile back. But, it's seen numerous improvements, and the project might afford a few of you guys ideas for your own cabinets, so I figured maybe a project thread was in order... The sweetheart picked this little gem up at a second hand shop here in town for a whopping $15!
Needed some half shelves in it, so I can store twice as many calls! So... a trip to Menards and $25 later we returned home with 3 chunks of 1/2" x 6" Oak Shelving.
Brad nailer and some 1 1/8" brads made quick and simple work of that task with exception to the one shelf I measured wrong. Sweet thing about the brad nailer is; it don't leave big unsightly holes where you screw up!
Since the new shelves needed a coat of varnish, and the original cabinet didn't have the greatest finish on it either. Everything got a light sanding and a fresh coat of Minwax or 4.
And, since we can't have all those gorgeous calls our master call makers here at PM turn, hiding in the dark; the project also called for a little LED Strip Lighting to make it all pretty inside!!
Should any of you guys contemplate this strip lighting thingy, the best deal I found was Light Enhancing Designs Four LED Light Strip Kit, was only $29.99, and it came complete with:
-- 4 - 1 foot LED Strips
-- Mounting brackets, screws, double sided tape, and strip end caps
-- Power converter
-- On/Off Switch
-- 4 - 2 ft. cables
-- 4 - 3 inch cables for side by side installations.
Everyone else was twice this price, even for the same kit!! Most sold you LED strips only and you had to try to find the remainder and piece it together. (Even Menards!) Service was excellent!! I ordered the kit on Sunday night, it shipped USPS Flat Rate box out of south Florida, and I had it in North Dakota Thursday morning, at 8 a.m.
Installation was simple and easy... Pilots holes go a long way to preserving your sanity on the mounting brackets, as they have some little bitty wood screws in there. A $6 roll of Gorilla Tape worked nicely to tuck the wires up in the corners underneath the shelf and securely fasten it's entire length, so as to hide all the wires. It also worked nicely to tame the mess in back where everything tied together in the junction box, so only 1 cord comes out the side for lightning.
When I looked at the bottom picture up here, I went back and tore off strips of Gorilla tape about a 1/4" wide and taped them over the front of my LED strips to cut down on light shining out above the doors.
These images are all clickable thumbnails if you guys want a closer look at any of it. Just trying to be thoughtful of the guys on dial-up since there is a bunch of pictures.
I had posted a picture of my new call cabinet awhile back. But, it's seen numerous improvements, and the project might afford a few of you guys ideas for your own cabinets, so I figured maybe a project thread was in order... The sweetheart picked this little gem up at a second hand shop here in town for a whopping $15!
Needed some half shelves in it, so I can store twice as many calls! So... a trip to Menards and $25 later we returned home with 3 chunks of 1/2" x 6" Oak Shelving.
Brad nailer and some 1 1/8" brads made quick and simple work of that task with exception to the one shelf I measured wrong. Sweet thing about the brad nailer is; it don't leave big unsightly holes where you screw up!
Since the new shelves needed a coat of varnish, and the original cabinet didn't have the greatest finish on it either. Everything got a light sanding and a fresh coat of Minwax or 4.
And, since we can't have all those gorgeous calls our master call makers here at PM turn, hiding in the dark; the project also called for a little LED Strip Lighting to make it all pretty inside!!
Should any of you guys contemplate this strip lighting thingy, the best deal I found was Light Enhancing Designs Four LED Light Strip Kit, was only $29.99, and it came complete with:
-- 4 - 1 foot LED Strips
-- Mounting brackets, screws, double sided tape, and strip end caps
-- Power converter
-- On/Off Switch
-- 4 - 2 ft. cables
-- 4 - 3 inch cables for side by side installations.
Everyone else was twice this price, even for the same kit!! Most sold you LED strips only and you had to try to find the remainder and piece it together. (Even Menards!) Service was excellent!! I ordered the kit on Sunday night, it shipped USPS Flat Rate box out of south Florida, and I had it in North Dakota Thursday morning, at 8 a.m.
Installation was simple and easy... Pilots holes go a long way to preserving your sanity on the mounting brackets, as they have some little bitty wood screws in there. A $6 roll of Gorilla Tape worked nicely to tuck the wires up in the corners underneath the shelf and securely fasten it's entire length, so as to hide all the wires. It also worked nicely to tame the mess in back where everything tied together in the junction box, so only 1 cord comes out the side for lightning.
When I looked at the bottom picture up here, I went back and tore off strips of Gorilla tape about a 1/4" wide and taped them over the front of my LED strips to cut down on light shining out above the doors.
