I'm late to the game on this thread, it's the first time I've opened it up for some reason. Great pictures here guys, really some impressive spaces. Essentially (being an old bachelor) my entire home is a gun room. I have been slowing turning the spare bedroom into my "Scout Room" to house my collection of that sort of memorabilia. This is a terrible picture taken with my ancient flip phone but you'll get the idea of where I'm heading.


Destry

I have enough financial mischief with vintage shotguns and my rifle fetish gets me into enough trouble as it is:whistle:

This is how it looked when I started a couple months ago so I've come a long way. Hah!

All these gun room pictures and I didn't see a single "inside Harley".

The new gun room is all done, not a real big space, but cozy enough
(15'x13'6") quite empty right now though, so a picture of my newly made gun cabinet will have to suffice for now (still lacking the felt backing...I'll get around to it sooner than later hopefully:rolleyes:). Currently holding a few Parkers, Ithaca's, Lefever's, Beretta and Browning doubles, amongst other makes/models/action styles. Sorry if the picture is a bit dark, the lighting in the room is a little dull at the moment, and didn't want to use a flash.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...ps75py6tsy.jpg

Wow - what a nice gun cabinet! Congratulations on a job well done!

I see a Ruger No. 1 in there... a 'Must' for any well-stocked gun cabinet.

Thank you kindly, but I can't take credit for the carpentry work itself, it was my design, measurments, etc... But a friend/co-worker requested the chance to build it for me, so I took him up on the offer, and don't regret it! He would have had the felt backer in place during construction, but he became tied for time with other responsibilities, so I told him that I would look after it down the road.

And yes, that's a Ruger No. 1 Tropical Stainless in 375 H&H. The couple semi's you might see ( one or two are hidden by the frame) are Browning Auto 5's, a mint 20 gauge and a light twelve, along with a newer 20 gauge Browning Silver, and a couple run of the mill rifles / .22's.

Great looking caves!

Some fine rooms, but also the glimpse of some fine guitars, I am ashamed that I do not play more, I have my dads Gibson, Called Nashville to inquire about it, seems it was made between 1918-1922, I looked inside the box seems as though there is some writing do not know what it says need to get a light and a glass to see, he played on the radio in the 30's with a group called the Carolina Boys I think, He is long gone and taught me to play, what little I know is from him, I also have a Les Paul in the closet that has not been out of its case in several years, the Amp probably has a mouse home in it, just kidding, I think there is a Yamaha hiding in the closet too! Box guitars for for country, and electric for a little rock, just me Chet Atkins was my favorite, in country Clapton for rock, Gary

I have been having a hard time keeping up on my reading, and have stopped watching most television because I started back playing the guitar. I am trying to learn to play classical style guitar and am really enjoying it. I always was a finger picker but this is really a workout. Now when I go back to playing James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, etc, it seems so much easier. A good friend asked me if I wanted a guitar, and I said sure. I had been helping him move with my truck. Turns out, it was a beautiful Ibanez dreadnot from the early 1970's that was such a direct knock-off of the Gibson that they were sued over it. Many were destroyed by cutting off their necks when they were seized coming into the country--They are called "lawsuit guitars" on the internet. A former Chet Atkins award winning guitar player who lives here loves it ( Martin makes a special run of guitars named after him-Roger Hoard).
It plays much easier than my old 1972 Yamaha FG 160. So, I am enjoying it but sure wished I hadn't stopped playing 20 years ago