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- Apr 6, 2025
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- Benton, PA, USA.
- Name
- Alex Acle
- LOCATION
- Benton, PA, USA.
I have been absent from this site for a while tending to organizing my shop (mostly the metalworking side), and restoring a rather large metal lathe, so I have few in the way of current woodworking projects to share at present. (OK, I admit it... I have also been distracted with a little fishing on the river! 
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So... I dug up some old pictures of a project that I executed in the early 1980s for a close grade-school friend. He needed a rack for his hunting rifles.
As an aside (and I know this will generate much controversy), we are very fortunate to have Constitutionally protected access to firearms here in the Colonies, so rifle racks are requisite and present in many residences (most in my area).
I designed this rack from scratch, in what I like to consider to be a "Colonial" style. It was made of Mahogany and (rather crudely) finished in a varnish. It was my first exposure to using a true Mahogany, and I quickly learned why it is such a popular furniture timber.
My apologies for the poor quality of the photographs...
)So... I dug up some old pictures of a project that I executed in the early 1980s for a close grade-school friend. He needed a rack for his hunting rifles.
As an aside (and I know this will generate much controversy), we are very fortunate to have Constitutionally protected access to firearms here in the Colonies, so rifle racks are requisite and present in many residences (most in my area).
I designed this rack from scratch, in what I like to consider to be a "Colonial" style. It was made of Mahogany and (rather crudely) finished in a varnish. It was my first exposure to using a true Mahogany, and I quickly learned why it is such a popular furniture timber.
My apologies for the poor quality of the photographs...
