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Another one of my hobbies just
happens to be the game of golf. I am pretty much a "hacker" but love
to play the game just the same! Over the years, I have collected
monogrammed golf balls from courses that I have played on or visited in
the past. I have one from the 1991 PGA Tournament held at the Crooked
Stick Golf Course in Carmel, Indiana which was won by John Daly.
Also have one from the 2008 Buick Open held in Detroit.
Longer story made shorter
is: I have too many to fit the display case that was given to me
aa a gift a few years ago and decided to use it as a model to make myself
a larger one. The original case only had 25 spaces to hold "specimens".
I basically changed the design to widen the case enabling it to hold 70
golf balls (about 3 times as wide as the original case).
I used left over hard maple
from my workbench project to make all the pieces
for the display case. I used my DeWalt 734 planer
to
get the thickness down to 1/4" thick for the divider pieces and 1/2" thick
for the sides, top and bottom pieces. The two photos below shows how I
set up the table saw with a 1/4" dado set to cut the slots for the vertical
and horizontal dividers.
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The side pieces also received
1/4" deep X 1/4" wide dado cuts to accept the dividers and to give the
front a more complete finished look. Some of the pieces laid out
on my workbench are shown in the photo below prior to assembly.
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There was nothing really difficult
about this project other than it was somewhat nerve wracking trying to
make sure that my clamps didn't slip while cutting the grooves in the slats
so that everything would go together with the same amount of spacing.
I used 1/8" thick Hardboard that I painted Kelly Green as a backer for
the case. I cut 1/4" wide X 1/8" deep rabbets around the perimeter
of the back sides of both the top and bottom pieces as well as the sides
to accept the installation of the green backer.
I used a 3/4” corebox router
bit that I set up in my drill press to make the recessed half round "dimples"
in the shelves. I first used a 1/4” drill bit to drill smaller holes in
the locations to help guide the corebox bit at the desired locations. I
then switched to the corebox bit set at a depth of half the thickness of
the shelf boards to finish the dimples that holds the specimens.
The three views below show
the finished project. As always, you can see a larger more detailed
photo of these views by clicking on them.
Right Side View
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Front View
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Left Side View
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As I said earlier, this was
not a difficult project but it sure was fun! And, best of all, it
gives me an excuse to go out and play more golf courses so that I can fill
it up. Does that make sense?
Here is how it looks so far
with my case and collection mounted on my office wall.
As always, comments are welcome
and you can get them to me by the e-mail address below.
Dave
dave@oldaveswoodshop.com
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