would like to find a nice looking wood box with drawers to house gun cleaning supplies (indoors)

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Now that I have a dedicated spot in my office in the new casa for cleaning, fiddling with, and occasionally breaking guns, I'd love to find a nice looking wood box to house this stuff. I've seen some that look like they lend themselves to long gun cleaning kits but I hardly shoot long guns. I also would like to be able to stand up my lubes and cleaning solvents in the box.

Any recommendations?

This is what I have now. The fishing box I bought when I was 12, and the tub is from the hospital when one of the kids was born 25 years ago. I'm not attached to either. The fishing box and the tub, that is. ;)

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mj1angier said:
Something like this:
https://www.harborfreight.com/eight-drawer-wood-tool-chest-94538.html
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That's nice looking. I'd like to find one that has enough room to stand up small bottles of lube and Hoppes.

I see these all over the internet, but I don't really need one for long guns.

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If you just want a square wooden box, Walmart usually carries Winchester and Remington brand wooden ammo crates. Some have rope handles, and they're usually not expensive. Could attach a small rifle rest to the top for cleaning long guns.

The ones I've seen don't have any compartments or trays inside, so you'd have to add some of your own if you want them.
 
An M67 ammo crate might be right too
 
An ammo crate or old Remington ammo box might be the way I go only because I want a section to be tall enough to stand up 6" high bottles of lube and solvent.
 
fieldgrade said:
An ammo crate or old Remington ammo box might be the way I go only because I want a section to be tall enough to stand up 6" high bottles of lube and solvent.
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Get it tall enough to fit them and a plastic tray to set them in, because they will spill/ leak
 
mj1angier said:
Get it tall enough to fit them and a plastic tray to set them in, because they will spill/ leak
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Yup. That's why they are in the tub now, that turns them over early and often.
 
Thanks box on Amazon looks great but notice the height.
 
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This is the Harbor Freight one. Mine is full of knives. I have an antique one that is full of gun cleaning stuff.
 
fieldgrade said:
While I like some of the vintage ammo boxes, a lot, most of them occupy too much real estate on top of my workspace, as does the Harbor Freight Gerstner knock off. For the price of this one, I can mod the top shelf so I can still stand up my lube and solvents in the bottom (probably with a hole saw). Im gonna give it a go. Will report back in two days. *Go Prime*
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Save the hole saw and get a 2'x2'x 1/4" birch plywood and build a tray half the length of the tray that the box comes with. Then just stand the bottles up on one side and the tray sits on the other side. This way if you re-purpose the box the original tray won't have holes in it.

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I've got this wooden box on the left that I keep my gunsmithing tools in. It would be too short for solvent bottles. Those I keep in a milk crate under the bench (gallon size bottles of CLP, Rifle Bore cleaners etc) I do have wooden ammo crates full of magazines/brass/patches. My everyday cleaning kit is in a multi tray fishing tackle plastic box.
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With owning a set of pony bar clamps like that... Why didn't you build something ?

I bet you could find a small plastic tub in your cupboard to use instead of foil.
 
Mirac said:
With owning a set of pony bar clamps like that... Why didn't you build something ?

I bet you could find a small plastic tub in your cupboard to use instead of foil.
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I just moved and I no longer have a shop. For the $30 price I was able to buy that box, I'd much rather just mod it.

I built this for my dad when I was fifteen, but we had a heck of a wood shop at school.

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I like it. I would stain that box or die. Lol
 
Burt Gummer said:
I like it. I would stain that box or die. Lol
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I did think about staining it, but my experience with asian wood furniture is it's often made of weird woods that don't take stain well. Like exhausted rubber trees. That wood doesn't take stain at all.
 
fieldgrade said:
I did think about staining it, but my experience with asian wood furniture is it's often made of weird woods that don't take stain well. Like exhausted rubber trees. That wood doesn't take stain at all.
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Once it has oil all over it just keep it away from the fireplace
 
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