Parker Display

[Dean Weber]

For the last couple years I have been considering building a gun room to display my favorite doubles. However, the cost and the thought of wanting them near me where the family spends time made me consider creating a replica antique case for display. This is what I came up with. I did not build the case, I commissioned it with a builder. How do you display yours?

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[Bob Jurewicz]

Dean,
That is a beautiful gun cabinet, display and room. I have always been fearful of displaying my collection for fear of the bad guys coming for them.
Bob Jurewicz

[Dean Romig]

Nice display Dean - very well done indeed! Where’s that ‘green with envy’ emiji...??

Mine are not on display but are locked away in the nether regions of my subterranian gun room... for the same reason Bob said.






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[Steve Huffman]

From what I see I think Dean has thought this through .

[Randy G Roberts]

Very nice Dean, beautiful mounts and bar as well. I like that wood work on the bar a lot. Mine are displayed currently in the gun room, locked but not fireproof, very adequately insured. Currently making plans to build which will include a walk in vault.

[bob lyons]

Wow fabulous!

[Dean Weber]

Some of my considerations. My safes are in a room under the garage, so concrete on 5 sides. Considered making that a gun room but felt the expense was not something you could recover in home value. The house is alarmed with glass breaks in most rooms. The case has “smash proof glass”. Case would break first. Plus the door is alarmed and connected to the house system. Then, my wife’s Velociraptor would eat the first one in. Obviously, when we go away, the guns go in the safe. Insurance also gives state of mind as well.

[Chris Robenalt]

That's the creme de La Creme Dean! Wish I could display mine the same way. Much easier to look, admire and play with them then. Growing up dad and grandpa had the glass door gun case for 7 or 8 guns. I'd be happy with even that, but like Bob said, too many bad guys coming for them. Like most, I'm keeping mine behind a heavy steel door. It's a very nice collection with great presentation! Thanks for sharing Dean.
Chris, AZ

[J. Scott Hanes]

Are you sure it is large enough?? Great-looking case!!

[Andrew Sacco]

Speechless. And congrats on a wonderful thought out space. I live somewhat remote and am afraid of the bad guys too. If I'm home they won't get out in one piece let alone alive but when we're not here there's nothing a good thief can't get, alarm system and all.

[Ken Hill]

Great looking case and room! Did you request the quarter sawn wood?

Ken

[Dean Weber]

Great looking case and room! Did you request the quarter sawn wood?

Ken

Ken,
Yes, the quarter sawn oak was a requirement. The back was supposed to be oak as well but the gray leather was chosen as an alternative for contrast. They did a phenomenal job creating it. It is three pieces which sit on top one another so it is manageable to move.

Dean

[Brian Dudley]

That case is Beautiful Dean!!! Top notch in every regard. It would be hard pressed to find better.

[Buddy Marson]

Now that's a "MAN CAVE". Yes, thank you, I'll have a Buffalo Trace!!!

[allen newell]

Dean, please leave me in your will

[Dean Weber]

Now that's a "MAN CAVE". Yes, thank you, I'll have a Buffalo Trace!!!

Buddy, I am not sure if BT is in the bar right now, but I am sure we could find you something with some character:).

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[CraigThompson]

I’ve got everything on lockdown except eight or so I use regularly . I’ve always wanted a vault type room that I could have all displayed in an orderly and readily available way as well as being able to sit and relax amongst my pets :rolleyes: . But at this point in life I don’t see it as being very cost effective .

[charlie cleveland]

great room dean...best gun room I have seen...lot s of thought and planning went into this beautiful room.....charlie

[Brian Dudley]

Mine is hardly as nice, but it is an antique. It was from a local business (The Hilton Candy Kitchen) that closed in the 1980s and was around since the turn of the century.

I modified the shelving on the one side to be able to accept 14 guns.

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[Steve Huffman]

Mine is a mess You cant walk at least the bad guy will be there if he steps in either of the bear traps I have set !

[Bob Hayes]

Forget the Southern we should all meet at Dean's.

[Jeff Peck]

I was lucky enough to build a room when we moved, everything locked and secured.

[Dean Romig]

Jeff, you need more ammo for all those guns.





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[JAMES HALL]

Secure?

[Dean Romig]

I guess it is !!!





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[Jeff Peck]

Jeff, you need more ammo for all those guns.





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I can't afford ammo these days !

And yes, very, very secure !

[Randy Davis]

I was lucky enough to build a room when we moved, everything locked and secured.

Adjusted your photo...

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[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Jim, The local BB&T does not have a vault that good! Very nice and secure yo the limit, All the rooms shown are great and something to be proud of, Gary

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

A shot at mine, Gary

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

I have a cluttered room also , Two Liberty safes not shown, sometimes I go to the room and spend the better part of a day and night just doing some research and studying those Parkers always see something I missed before, Gary

[Reggie Bishop]

I used to like my little office upstairs in my house that houses a handful of double guns. Wow! Amazing what some of you guys get to enjoy.

[Randy G Roberts]

A couple of pics from the gun room of a departed friend of mine. He loved his Colt Woodsmans and Winchester 61s. I used to wander around that gun room in amazement. He also had a passion for Winchester 12s and 42s and had several nice specimens. He left us to early at the age of 65. One year we were at the Kansas City show and he purchased a NIB Model 12 Hydracoil with the ivory colored finishes. I made fun of it and told him it was a girls gun. He joined right in and tried to convince me to dress up in a dress, wig, heels and the whole package and take this maybe never fired gun to the gun club and shoot skeet with it. He thought it would be worth the laugh even if it meant shooting this mint specimen. It's a shame that we never did get that done. I do know where that gun is still today though :)

[Dave Noreen]

Wow!! That wouldn't be Edward A. Brink would it?

The only two pistols I own are my Father's Woodsman Target first issue of circa 1930, and my Uncle Irv's Woodsman Target - Second Series - first issue that was a Christmas gift from his wife in 1953. While it has been shot some, it is still in the original box and waxed paper with the instruction manual and cleaning rod/brush. Irv passed it on to me on my 21st birthday. My Father carried his all over the western half of North America, and it shows it.

[Randy G Roberts]

Wow!! That wouldn't be Edward A. Brink would it? .

No Dave it would not be.

[charlie cleveland]

your friend was a good collector and you was lucky to have him for a friend...very nice indeed......charlie

[Chris Robenalt]

Wow, my head's spinning! The man is better stocked than our local Bass Pro, Sportsman's, and Cabella's here in Phx.....

[Randy G Roberts]

Wow, my head's spinning! The man is better stocked than our local Bass Pro, Sportsman's, and Cabella's here in Phx.....

Yes he was in both quantity and quality. It was something to see. I only posted a portion of his guns.

[todd allen]

My humble collection resides in a turn of the last century government vault, which is parked in a hidden room, that for all intents and purposes, doesn't exist. Hidden, room, hidden door, etc.
That said, the largest collection that I have ever had contact with, was my daughter in law's Godparents. Absolutely amazing collection! My son's wedding reception was held at their house.
Google Wes Adams gun Collection.

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Amazing is all I can say about some of these collections, With a lot of us aging, out so to speak, There will be a lot of nice guns coming to market, and some handed down to sons and grandsons and grand daughters and daughters to enjoy and cherish, hopefully they will remember ol grandpa when they use them! Gary

[Mills Morrison]

That is awesome! I am hoping to have a better display someday.

[Chris Pope]

Dean- What a beautiful cabinet! For my 30th birthday my wife commissioned the company that handcrafts the gun cabinets in LL Bean's Maine Store. They are nothing fancy, quite simple really, sort of a Shaker style and lit on the inside. She had them build a small 8 gun cabinet. I loved it. If I wanted to feel good I'd go into the office in our home and flip that cabinet light on and imagine my great grandfather carrying his deer rifle or recall a favorite duck hunt. Then for safety and security reasons we bought a big ugly safe and now spin the dial to peak inside. It's not the same. We gifted my old cabinet to my nephew. When I get to the point I can't remember the combo any more I think I'll go back to a big cabinet...

[Craig Larter]

These days thieves find it much easier to steal from your computer or cellphone, much less risky than breaking into homes that have security systems, video cameras everywhere and armed owners. Petty thieves have turned to car jacking.

[Bill Murphy]

Bringing this thread to the top for readers of a similar thread today.

[Darrell Jervey]

I am thankful for this thread and the comments on the other thread I started. I think I am going to have a 6 gun case built for display and put the rest back in a locked room. For security, I am going to have polycarbonate glass in front, and a locking bar across the middle of the guns, with a hole up top for the barrels to fit through. Pretty good security, although still a risk. I simply need to be able to see these guns to help me keep smiling. Thanks for the input.

[Kevin McCormack]

Very elegant and very well done! Except for the pool table, it reminds me of one of the alcove rooms at the NRA National Firearms Museum, about 6 minutes from my house. No level of security is too much; I do not display my guns at home in any form and am very discreet and selective of whom I share them with.

[Russell E. Cleary]

Here is another inspiring display, no longer intact, from an old thread; which was then posted for our appreciation by F. H.