How To Make A Hockey Puck Display Case
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.
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.
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.
Source: https://blog.cjr.dev/2014/12/04/building-a-custom-hockey-puck-display-case/
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