displaying your collection
 

I'm trying to set up a display for my collection, but I haven't got any good idea. How you store your artefacts? Shelfs, walls pannels? Can you post some pictures of your collections on display?

Valjhun

Take a look at this page http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002302.html. While on it you can drill down on several of the other links to get more ideas.

Hi Valjhun


Here is another link with some more wall hanging ideas.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1515


Lew

I have most of my swords on typical seven- to eight-sword racks one buys from a martial arts supplier. Then, spears are in a corner, helmets and bucklers on holders on a top shelf, and the knives, daggers and small axes under glass on a coffee table I bought from Ikea.

...and yet here's another thread that might help you some:


http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...hlight=display

I want to show you my new dispaly (first picture). Moreover i was able to obtain from my wife one small room where I can put all my loved weapons ;) (or at least those that enter!). Sorry if the images aren't so clear, but the space is truly little (1.7 meters X 1.3 meters!! :o ) but i'm happy because is my territory!! Sorry also for the chaos, but still the work is not finished :rolleyes:

Flavio your treasures are displayed most handsomely. A large part of mine look like a junk shop :o . Timhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/jamhappy/dis.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...happy/dis1.jpg

[QUOTE=Tim Simmons]Flavio your treasures are displayed most handsomely. A large part of mine look like a junk shop :o .

Tim

The next time I am in the UK I will come over for a visit and help get your display in order :D

Lew

My Toy Box
 

Pardon a 'candid' shot . :)

Cats have no respect ........ ;)

Of course the rest of the living room walls look like an armory . :D
If you get bored with one drawer's contents you can switch for one of the other two .

*yes, we are clutterbugs ... :o

Lew, let me know when the flight arrives :cool: .

Hey Tim, I like your junkshop. When is it open ? :D

Freddy

Here is some of mine.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a173/Alan62/rs005.jpg

a serious thought
 

When collecting not just weapons, why is it near impossible to heed the maxim " less is more", trade in every thing and just have a few excellent pieces. Is it possible that collecting is a mild, more tolerable less incapacitating form of "OCD" obsessive compulsive disorder, a knowledgeable one at that :eek:. Tim

Flavio,

I like the blocks you used for your wall display. Nice method.

Rick,

The kris on the table on the right, haven't I seen that somewhere before? ;)

Yep ! ;)
One of my faves !

BTW Rick, that vicious looking four-legged weapon with all the fur around the "blades", it's exact twin brother occupies a place in my collection as well. :D

Hello Rick, could you show us? :)

Four legged "pieces" are the best of a collection. This one died six months ago and i still cry for him.
I am lucky i leave in a three bedroomed flat, but my wife is not fond of domestic decorations and other apparatuses, so i am allowed to occupy all corners, armoires, wall spaces, clothroom tops, sometimes together with fire weapons ... all that is possible, and trying to avoid the living room to look like a weapons shop.

Super things fernando, we also get another look at that special African knife with the two snakes and human figures on the handle. This picture has captured and is showing us that it does indeed have a respectable age to it. Very nice. Tim

More Clutter
 

A view of the living room ; just finished installing the little woodstove . :)
I'll have to rearrange a few pieces away from the new stove .

There are also spears over the sliding glass doors and front bay window .

Part of my den ; I also have a large Chinese brass urn crammed with swords which will all get put on the walls someday .

Waaay OT
 

Ahh , sad to say Samurai cat has returned to his Maker as has the brave
Lionhound . :(

We do have replacement troops though .
Here are the FNG's .
The cats (coon) are all grown up now .
The dog is quite the fashionable youg lady ; is she not ? :D

And this is how I did mine!

Fernando, Rick, both of you have awesome displays. Weapons everywhere you look. It's great.

Punal, you have a superb Moro weapons collection. I especially like the SP89 and the M1A (Nat'l match?) Is the scatter gun Benelli or HK? I used to work at RNJ Guns in Carson during the good ole days.

My display.... not really a display but a staging area, until I can find room
in my closet, under the bed, file cabinets....anywhere?

Punal, you have a superb Moro weapons collection. I especially like the SP89 and the M1A (Nat'l match?) Is the scatter gun Benelli or HK? I used to work at RNJ Guns in Carson during the good ole days.

Kino,
I got my SP89, Benelli's (M3, M1 and super Nova), the AR15 colt and 5 more pistols, from Romy himself (owner of RNJ) he was a good friend of mine, I also knew all the salesman there that worked there, most of the time I ask for Romy himself, or Andy, that before things happened! you know what I mean? I used to live in Carson, during early 90's, near Cal State Domiguez.
Btw, the Remington scuttergun, I got that from the Orange County Crossroad Gun Show. MA1 was from B&B Garden Grove. Small world man! what made you moved to WA?

I thought we needed a little more representation from the keris people, here is a part of my collection ;)

WOW :eek: !!!!

SWEET MERCY!!! That's a lot of keris :eek: :eek: :)

A question to all of you hardcore collectors: any special climatic conditions for your weapons? Humid/dry, cool or warm? There's people here from all over the world, so how do the weapons fare?

Wow indeed! I love the artistic arrangement you have created, especially that wave of keris leading up to the ceiling on the right. The only reason this would not work for me is my own constant desire to handle, inspect and oil and cense my keris. So i need my blades a little more at hand. Some of yours are a little too inconviniently placed for my own personal purposes. But otherwise a fantastic presentation. Thanks for showing. :)

BTW Naga Sasra, i count more than 100 keris in this one picture and i am sure you have a few more that aren't showing. Your "disease" is even more advanced than mine. ;) Thanks for this display. I can show it to my wife next time she questions my sanity or wonders where i will put my next keris. She will then see how easy she actually has it. :D

Punal, email sent.

Wonderful display Naga Sasra !
One can only wonder what further delights await down the hallway . :D
By what method are they all suspended on the wall ?

Thank you for the kind words, I can tell you that the use of the walls in my family room and the hallway took a lot of (expensive) negotiation with my wife to get the space allocated.

MANOLO: Living here in South Florida expose my Keris to the highly corrosive enviroment that nature can provide, heat, moisture and an occational bad wind, this problem is solved with the exeption of the bad winds, by having the house at a nearly constant temperature using the air conditioning system year round, this also lower the moisture (humidity) content to an acceptable level.

nechesh: I also have a constant desire to handle my pieces, which I do at least on a yearly basis, where they are cleaned and scented and oiled, and it seems to be working as I have noticed no corrosion on the blades. They are in fact very easy to get down the way they are mounted.

RICK: The hallway is also occupied all the way down and so is the opposite wall in the family room but to a much lesser extend.
They are mounted with three 1 5/8' white panel nails if they are on an angle, two where the gambar meet the gandar and one to support the angle. If they are hung straight just two is necessary. Once the nails are in place I use 28 GA green painted wire (corrosion free) between the two nails and they are locked in place, yet easy to take down and reinstall, the wire can be reused over and over.

Best regards to you all :)

A VERY NEAT DISPLAY OF KERIS, WITH THE WHITE BACKGROUND IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE A FLOCK OF KERIS FLYING TOGETHER :D I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO ADD TO ANY OF MY DISPLAYS LATELY AS I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO HANG THEM ON THE CELING YET :D PICTURES OF OTHERS COLLECTIONS AND DISPLAYS IS THE NEXT BEST THING TO SEEING THE COLLECTIONS IN PERSON. THANKS FOR THE PIC'S GUYS IT ALWAYS MAKES FOR A GOOD TOPIC.

Very impressive display of keris indeed Erik. Your collection has been one of those I've been secretly hoping to see and here we are even though it's only a glimpse of part of what you have. Thanks for sharing and wouldn't mind seeing more.

One must commend you guys for having good understanding wives for allowing displays even in family/public room/halls etc. I only have my private hi-fi room to play with and compromising some sound acoustics. :(

A room! You have your own room? :D
Actually it has been a long and delicate series of high level detante and negotiation that has allowed me to slowly spead my collection around the common spaces of my home and in general my wife has been very good about it. But i would actually prefer to have my own room for my collection since sometimes sharp and pointy delicate antique objects are not so good to have around during a party or when your friends want to bring their small children over. :eek:
Erik, i wasn't questioning the care of you blades as i am sure you keep them in very good order indeed. My own personal obsession, however, requires that i handle each and every blade at least every few weeks so i tend to keep them all at ground level reach. :)

This system is easy to install, change as needed, makes the knives accessible
and requires no special tools. 2 nails, some 28 gauge black wire and a brass or nylon washer.

Well, the room (15' x 24' x 10') was a dream come true specifically for room acoustics following years of interests in hi-fi. However my other half doesn't want anything sharp edged esp head hunting swords and keris in family areas so no choice; the music have to give some way to Bugis. Can't win them all. :)

O.T.
 

Hi John , have you heard of this company ?
Some prefer vacuum tube amps I hear . :D
http://www.thoraudio.com/

Rick, I'm on vacuum tube amps ie Cary which is US made. :). They are great for female vocals, a favourite of mine...

Ah ha ! :D
Paul who owns Thor is an old schoolmate of mine .
If you're into vacuum tubes then you're hardcore my friend . :D

Now back to the subject at hand ..... :)