Gun display hooks
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This was a fun little weekend project I came up with–I have an old shotgun that was given to me by my late grandfather and have wanted to find a way to display it for a long time. So I took some mahogany scraps and did a little design research and came up with these. I did use a band-saw for the curves though I probably could have done it by hand. I just didn’t want to risk splitting the wood (which I did have an issue with but was able to repair as I went). This project was good for some mortise/tenon practice and they came out generally OK. That said, I did learn some valuable insight on this one–structurally, these hooks are not as strong as they should be because I used the wrong grain orientation (hence the split in one of my tenons that i had to glue back together). If the grain were more horizontal, the hooks would be stronger, and the edges would probably look a bit darker due to more end-grain. I bull nosed the mounting plate edges and lined the hooks with felt so as to protect the gun.
They look nice!
It’s fun to be able to just whip something out, isn’t it?