Random objects pressed into service to display your weapons!!

Atlantia · 25th January 2009, 11:57 PM

Hi all,

Bills thread from a couple of weeks ago about his WW1 Howitzer shell/umberella stand and how it found a second-life as a Spear holder, made me wonder how many other objects we all are using to display our collected weapons which were meant for other uses?

Come on chaps! Mother of invention and all!

Improvised stands, caes, displays, racks?
What are you all using?

Bit of fun and might give us some good ideas!

Robert · 26th January 2009, 02:24 AM

In my case to build my racks I use 1x2 pine strips with holes drilled every inch down the center and L-hooks to rest the blades or grips on. Not very fancy but it works for me.

Here is a picture of one of them.

Robert

Atlantia · 26th January 2009, 02:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert Coleman

In my case to build my racks I use 1x2 pine strips with holes drilled every inch down the center and L-hooks to rest the blades or grips on. Not very fancy but it works for me.

Here is a picture of one of them.

Robert

Bloody hell Robert!
Add some close-ups of that swept hilt Rapier, I need to see the 'mounting system' more clearly!

P.S. and whats the third one down from the top?
Looks rather interesting!

Robert · 26th January 2009, 04:16 AM

Hello, Thank you for your interest. I will try to get some decent pictures taken of the first sword you ask about tomorrow. It has a strange story as the old woman that I bought it from (who was in her 80s at the time) told me that it and another sword, a kris had been brought back from the Philippines by her Uncle. When I bought it it was covered in layer after layer of silver paint. I missed getting the kris.

The third sword down is also from the Philippines, Spanish American War era, probably Luzon. There is more about it including pictures here. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1909

Robert

Atlantia · 26th January 2009, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert Coleman

Hello, Thank you for your interest. I will try to get some decent pictures taken of the first sword you ask about tomorrow. It has a strange story as the old woman that I bought it from (who was in her 80s at the time) told me that it and another sword, a kris had been brought back from the Philippines by her Uncle. When I bought it it was covered in layer after layer of silver paint. I missed getting the kris.

The third sword down is also from the Philippines, Spanish American War era, probably Luzon. There is more about it including pictures here. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1909

Robert

Thanks Robert,
Good thread too! Thats a beautiful design of blade, I really like it.

Spunjer · 26th January 2009, 03:40 PM

...while baking some cookies one day, i had this vision (no, i wasn't making organic cookies

).
so off to walmart i went, and bought a DIY armoire and some red materials. then to lowe's, where i picked up some 3/4" boards and rollers.
after a week with pieces strewn all over the place, and wifey giving me those dagger looks, my oven inspired weapon cabinet was finally done! now, all i gotta do is open the doors and my babies are right there. just slide the board out.

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my version of Weapons of Moroland. bunch of L-shaped hooks. pretty simple

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a jersey shadow box frame from hobbylobby, and some strong magnets, to make these royalties looks like they're floating...

trenchwarfare · 26th January 2009, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert Coleman

In my case to build my racks I use 1x2 pine strips with holes drilled every inch down the center and L-hooks to rest the blades or grips on. Not very fancy but it works for me.

Here is a picture of one of them.

Robert

Hello Robert. Great collection. The naval cutlass, last sword above the daggers. Did you buy that from me on ebay? looks very familiar. I really didn't want to sell that one but... You have stay within your perameters. Awsome sword. M.P.

trenchwarfare · 26th January 2009, 06:20 PM

I needed a sword rack for a display, and didn't have to time to get creative. Went to the flea market I have a booth in, and found a wooden TV tray stand. Added pegs on the uprights, and used a bamboo place mat, across the tray holder for a shelf. Voila! Swords on the uprights, and daggers and smalls on the shelf. I also found a wooded what-not shelf. You know the kind, one board across two design cut wood supports. Available at Wally World, or any craft, or home improvement store. Turn upside down, and add hooks. Displays two or three swords, similar to a Samurai sword stand. Also, look for bamboo, or reed placemats, or roll-up blinds. They make a great back ground, or mat for display use. M.P.

Robert · 26th January 2009, 07:07 PM

Trenchwarfare, I really cannot remember who I bought the bolo from. It came in a lot of four that I won on ebay. If you are the one who sold them to me thank you very much as I really enjoy them. Here is where they were posted before. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3425

Spunjer, What a great idea for a display case, open when needed and closed when not. My bet is it holds dusting down to a minimum, something that racks like I have require alot of.

Robert

trenchwarfare · 26th January 2009, 07:25 PM

Robert. My sword was sold as a single. Identicle though. Buyer said that it was a Spanish American War Naval cutlass, for Philippine sailors in Spanish service. M.P.

Atlantia · 26th January 2009, 08:08 PM

Excellent ideas gentlemen! Good reuse Trenchwarfare!

Love the collections Spunjer, Great way to keep them safe and still easy to see!

I had problems displaying helmets and finding stands that weren't too huge to fit on a shelf.
For a while I was using this 19thC Nepalese Oil Lamp to display a Khud with long chainmail:

Seems a shame for such a nice object, but it still gets pressed into service for helmets that are a bit large or long or very heavy.

But I wanted a permenant solution that would be good for most helmets and be cheap and simple.

Here it is!

What am I using?

LOL, Kitchen tissue towel holder! Wooden and available for about a pound or two from many outlets.

trenchwarfare · 26th January 2009, 09:24 PM

I have a valve from a V-24 Off-shore deisel, I use for a helmet stand. Stainless steel, 12" tall, with a 6" base. Weighs about 5lbs.

Rick · 26th January 2009, 09:56 PM

A three drawer coffee table with beveled glass top; can be found at many unfinished furniture stores .
Switch the drawers around for a change .

carlos · 26th January 2009, 10:18 PM

I use a walking sticks stands for swords with narrow blades!!
Thanks
carlos

Atlantia · 26th January 2009, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carlos

I use a walking sticks stands for swords with narrow blades!!
Thanks
carlos

Hey Carlos

Got any pitcures?

Atlantia · 26th January 2009, 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rick

A three drawer coffee table with beveled glass top; can be found at many unfinished furniture stores .
Switch the drawers around for a change .

Hmmm, Lol, always good to discuss business over a cuppa and some scary looking weapons!
Pictures?

Luc LEFEBVRE · 26th January 2009, 10:54 PM

Just on the wall to give an idea of...flight !
Luc

Luc LEFEBVRE · 26th January 2009, 11:03 PM

I've also created magnetic stands.I can use them for any sort of sword, knife, axe...even with scabbard. Useless to have one stand for one knife, it's easy to change when I want !
Luc

nKante · 27th January 2009, 05:07 AM

Hey Luc, can I come over? When's the next party? I bring a bottle.... Impressive collection.

kahnjar1 · 27th January 2009, 06:37 AM

REALLY GREAT THREAD!!!!!!!!!! Not that I have anything further to contribute in the way of useful ways to display stuff, but......................thanks to those who have posted pics of their wonderful and VERY interesting items as a result of this subject

Robert · 27th January 2009, 07:22 AM

Atlantia, I posted the pictures of the Rapier in the European Armoury forum hoping to get more information on it than I have now, which is little to none. If you wouldn't mind please take a look at it there and if you would like I can even post close-ups of the 'mounting system'.

Thank you for your interest and thanks to all the others for sharing their ideas and wonderful displays with the rest of us in this great thread.

Robert

Lew · 27th January 2009, 12:12 PM

Most of my stuff is hung via rare earth magnets and small picture hooks with blued hardened steel nails and a bit of blued steel wire. The bottom photo I used a walking stick holder for some of my spears and clubs.

Gavin Nugent · 27th January 2009, 01:36 PM

Thank you everone who has let me into their house and collections for a virtual tour.
As I am undergoing major renovations over the next 12 months I won't have much to share on the display front but I will be sure to mark this thread for future postings as I do have a couple of nice displays in my mind for when all is complete here....here is hoping the renos don't drain the finances and keep me from obtianing other stuff too.

Gav

CharlesS · 27th January 2009, 02:08 PM

These are all awesome.

Great displays.

I love Spunjer's cabinet.

Rick · 27th January 2009, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atlantia

Hmmm, Lol, always good to discuss business over a cuppa and some scary looking weapons!
Pictures?

Atlantia · 27th January 2009, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rick

Thats looks great!
And is that a Daxy behind the stripey cat?

LOL, we've got a tabby cat and a black/tan daxy

Unfortunately I don't have a coffee table stuffed with fine Ethnographic weapons

Atlantia · 27th January 2009, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luc LEFEBVRE

I've also created magnetic stands.I can use them for any sort of sword, knife, axe...even with scabbard. Useless to have one stand for one knife, it's easy to change when I want !
Luc

Wow! Great idea for stands. Fantastic collection!

Scary collection of throwing knives!

I'm loving the theme! Makes me think I should specialise, looks amazing.

Atlantia · 27th January 2009, 03:50 PM

Lew.

Love the set-up and display! Do you make the perspex stands yourself?

Rick · 27th January 2009, 03:52 PM

Hi Gene , both animals have gone to their reward ..

We have new replacements now .

The dog is Rhodesian Ridgeback #1; we are on R.R. #2 and a synchronised licking team .

Then there's the walls and my kerisses .....

Lew · 27th January 2009, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atlantia

Lew.

Love the set-up and display! Do you make the perspex stands yourself?

Hi Atlantia

Bought the plexiglass stands from

http://www.artdisplay.com

26th January 2009, 06:20 PM	#8
trenchwarfare Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 385	Improvised sword rack. I needed a sword rack for a display, and didn't have to time to get creative. Went to the flea market I have a booth in, and found a wooden TV tray stand. Added pegs on the uprights, and used a bamboo place mat, across the tray holder for a shelf. Voila! Swords on the uprights, and daggers and smalls on the shelf. I also found a wooded what-not shelf. You know the kind, one board across two design cut wood supports. Available at Wally World, or any craft, or home improvement store. Turn upside down, and add hooks. Displays two or three swords, similar to a Samurai sword stand. Also, look for bamboo, or reed placemats, or roll-up blinds. They make a great back ground, or mat for display use. M.P.

26th January 2009, 10:18 PM	#14
carlos Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 738	walking sticks I use a walking sticks stands for swords with narrow blades!! Thanks carlos

26th January 2009, 10:54 PM	#17
Luc LEFEBVRE Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: France Posts: 473	Just on the wall to give an idea of...flight ! Luc Attached Images

26th January 2009, 11:03 PM	#18
Luc LEFEBVRE Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: France Posts: 473	I've also created magnetic stands.I can use them for any sort of sword, knife, axe...even with scabbard. Useless to have one stand for one knife, it's easy to change when I want ! Luc Attached Images

27th January 2009, 12:12 PM	#22
Lew (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: East Coast USA Posts: 3,191	Most of my stuff is hung via rare earth magnets and small picture hooks with blued hardened steel nails and a bit of blued steel wire. The bottom photo I used a walking stick holder for some of my spears and clubs. Attached Images

25th January 2009, 11:57 PM	#1
Atlantia Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: The Sharp end Posts: 2,928	Random objects pressed into service to display your weapons!! Hi all, Bills thread from a couple of weeks ago about his WW1 Howitzer shell/umberella stand and how it found a second-life as a Spear holder, made me wonder how many other objects we all are using to display our collected weapons which were meant for other uses? Come on chaps! Mother of invention and all! Improvised stands, caes, displays, racks? What are you all using? Bit of fun and might give us some good ideas! Last edited by Atlantia; 26th January 2009 at 02:34 AM.

26th January 2009, 02:24 AM	#2
Robert EAAF Staff Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Centerville, Kansas Posts: 2,196	In my case to build my racks I use 1x2 pine strips with holes drilled every inch down the center and L-hooks to rest the blades or grips on. Not very fancy but it works for me. Here is a picture of one of them. Robert Attached Images

26th January 2009, 04:16 AM	#4
Robert EAAF Staff Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Centerville, Kansas Posts: 2,196	Hello, Thank you for your interest. I will try to get some decent pictures taken of the first sword you ask about tomorrow. It has a strange story as the old woman that I bought it from (who was in her 80s at the time) told me that it and another sword, a kris had been brought back from the Philippines by her Uncle. When I bought it it was covered in layer after layer of silver paint. I missed getting the kris. The third sword down is also from the Philippines, Spanish American War era, probably Luzon. There is more about it including pictures here. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1909 Robert

26th January 2009, 03:40 PM	#6
Spunjer Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Witness Protection Program Posts: 1,730	...while baking some cookies one day, i had this vision (no, i wasn't making organic cookies ). so off to walmart i went, and bought a DIY armoire and some red materials. then to lowe's, where i picked up some 3/4" boards and rollers. after a week with pieces strewn all over the place, and wifey giving me those dagger looks, my oven inspired weapon cabinet was finally done! now, all i gotta do is open the doors and my babies are right there. just slide the board out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- my version of Weapons of Moroland. bunch of L-shaped hooks. pretty simple -------------------------------------------------------------------------- a jersey shadow box frame from hobbylobby, and some strong magnets, to make these royalties looks like they're floating...

26th January 2009, 07:07 PM	#9
Robert EAAF Staff Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Centerville, Kansas Posts: 2,196	Trenchwarfare, I really cannot remember who I bought the bolo from. It came in a lot of four that I won on ebay. If you are the one who sold them to me thank you very much as I really enjoy them. Here is where they were posted before. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3425 Spunjer, What a great idea for a display case, open when needed and closed when not. My bet is it holds dusting down to a minimum, something that racks like I have require alot of. Robert

26th January 2009, 07:25 PM	#10
trenchwarfare Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 385	Robert. My sword was sold as a single. Identicle though. Buyer said that it was a Spanish American War Naval cutlass, for Philippine sailors in Spanish service. M.P.

26th January 2009, 08:08 PM	#11
Atlantia Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: The Sharp end Posts: 2,928	Excellent ideas gentlemen! Good reuse Trenchwarfare! Love the collections Spunjer, Great way to keep them safe and still easy to see! I had problems displaying helmets and finding stands that weren't too huge to fit on a shelf. For a while I was using this 19thC Nepalese Oil Lamp to display a Khud with long chainmail: Seems a shame for such a nice object, but it still gets pressed into service for helmets that are a bit large or long or very heavy. But I wanted a permenant solution that would be good for most helmets and be cheap and simple. Here it is! What am I using? LOL, Kitchen tissue towel holder! Wooden and available for about a pound or two from many outlets.

26th January 2009, 09:24 PM	#12
trenchwarfare Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 385	I have a valve from a V-24 Off-shore deisel, I use for a helmet stand. Stainless steel, 12" tall, with a 6" base. Weighs about 5lbs.

26th January 2009, 09:56 PM	#13
Rick Vikingsword Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 6,293	A three drawer coffee table with beveled glass top; can be found at many unfinished furniture stores . Switch the drawers around for a change .

27th January 2009, 05:07 AM	#19
nKante Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Philly Posts: 72	Hey Luc, can I come over? When's the next party? I bring a bottle.... Impressive collection.

27th January 2009, 06:37 AM	#20
kahnjar1 Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND Posts: 2,741	REALLY GREAT THREAD!!!!!!!!!! Not that I have anything further to contribute in the way of useful ways to display stuff, but......................thanks to those who have posted pics of their wonderful and VERY interesting items as a result of this subject

27th January 2009, 07:22 AM	#21
Robert EAAF Staff Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Centerville, Kansas Posts: 2,196	Atlantia, I posted the pictures of the Rapier in the European Armoury forum hoping to get more information on it than I have now, which is little to none. If you wouldn't mind please take a look at it there and if you would like I can even post close-ups of the 'mounting system'. Thank you for your interest and thanks to all the others for sharing their ideas and wonderful displays with the rest of us in this great thread. Robert

27th January 2009, 01:36 PM	#23
Gavin Nugent Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,818	Thanks Everyone Thank you everone who has let me into their house and collections for a virtual tour. As I am undergoing major renovations over the next 12 months I won't have much to share on the display front but I will be sure to mark this thread for future postings as I do have a couple of nice displays in my mind for when all is complete here....here is hoping the renos don't drain the finances and keep me from obtianing other stuff too. Gav

27th January 2009, 02:08 PM	#24
CharlesS Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Greenville, NC Posts: 1,857	These are all awesome. Great displays. I love Spunjer's cabinet.

27th January 2009, 03:50 PM	#28
Atlantia Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: The Sharp end Posts: 2,928	Lew. Love the set-up and display! Do you make the perspex stands yourself?

27th January 2009, 03:52 PM	#29
Rick Vikingsword Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 6,293	Hi Gene , both animals have gone to their reward .. We have new replacements now . The dog is Rhodesian Ridgeback #1; we are on R.R. #2 and a synchronised licking team . Then there's the walls and my kerisses ..... Last edited by Rick; 27th January 2009 at 09:04 PM.