A couple years agone when I has having my basement finished I fix aside an area for displaying some of my hockey memorabilia.  Actually, it was more an area so that I could start collecting the things I e'er said I would, equally I'd kind of held off on collecting much due to space constraints.

I'd wanted to starting time collecting signed jerseys and sticks so I made sure to plan for those.  Along the way, though, I kind of lucked into some signed pucks that I had no programme for, and then I came up with something.  I recently had to update that plan and realized I'd never written any of it down, so I figured I'd write nearly it here.

The trouble I was looking at was that I had three pucks at the time and wanted to be able to add some more.  I also wanted the display to hang on a wall.  Most of the puck display cases available for purchase fit xx or more pucks.  The smaller ones are built to sit on a tabletop.  I couldn't find one that was quite what I wanted.

A mock up of how three hockey pucks fit in my hockey puck display case.
A mock up of how three hockey pucks fit in my hockey puck display case.

So I built one, starting with pretty standard 11″ x 14″ shadowbox.  The shadowbox is a picayune over an inch deep on the inside with a black frame and a black fabric backing.

That inch deep is important, as a hockey puck is 1″ thick and 3″ in diameter.  That too means that there'due south room for three of them with a decent amount of infinite around them.  The pucks are positioned centered at two 3/four″, 7″, and 11 1/iv″ vertically.

Holding them in position are ii 5/8″ wooden dowels, painted black and cut to about seven/viii″ length.  The dowels are positioned 2 1/4″ autonomously, centered in the shadowbox, 1 13/32″ beneath the centerpoint of the puck they're intended to agree.

The position of the dowels is what makes everything expandable.  When I got my quaternary puck, I added a dowel 2 1/iv″ to the left and right of the two existing middle posts.  Instead of holding a puck in the center pair, I put 1 in the left pair and one in the right pair.  With the top and lesser rows untouched, my straight line of iii pucks became a diamond of four.  Eventually the top and bottom row tin can be added to until the case displays half dozen pucks.

I did make a mistake when I expanded the case to four pucks.  I cut the dowels much closer to an inch (probably measured one inch and took the line).  That mistake is 1 of the reasons I wanted to document this, then that next time I would know and not need to re-measure anything.  I don't call back the mistake is noticeable, though.

A photo of my hockey puck display case configured for four pucks.
A photo of my hockey puck display instance configured for 4 pucks.

Update, seven/30/2016: I came back to build another one of these today and decided that a template for drilling holes would be dainty.  It's available for download here.