Do your own Revolver case: The easy way.

My girlfriend hates my collection, but still found me a very nice cigar box when we where in NYC.

Anyways my plan to do my own revolver case started then.
Here's a simple tutorial for the easy way to do it yourself.

Part #1: Draft.
1/ Buy a cigar box with enough room for your gun. ($5 at some week end market close to the Javitz Center in NYC in case you're passing by)

2/ I used "papier plume" cause it's easy to work with, inexpensive and super light.

3/ Here are the tools used: a ruler, a cutter, and (optional) a circle cutter.
I took the inside measurements and cut the "papier plume" with 2 mm less, so the cloth I will use later can fit in.
Then obviously cut the gun shape roughly larger to fit it in easily.

4/ My plan is to cut pieces of wood, thick enough to fit the revolver at half of the barrel height. But for now, those soda caps are fine.

5/ Put some cloth already!! I cut a piece of some velvet fabric, large enough so the revolver can be deep into it.

6/ and voilà, draft done.


Next part will be: add a velvet pad on the inside top of the box and on the inside bottom, replace the caps with pieces of wood, and work on some details here and there." />

very nice mate picked up a cigar case to do something similar but with foam never got round to it yet though
nice job  

Thanks!! I actually found some pics of old cardboard S&W revolver presentation case. And the interior part was done this way!

Part 2 : Working on the bottom part.
1/ A house for your favorite gun.

Cut wood parts in different sizes: 3 pieces 2X2X10cm, 2 pieces 2X2X7cm and 3 pieces of 2x2x1cm.
and close the bottom part with "walls" of "papier plume".

2/ Bedroom

I finally took pink silk (that looks totally red in the picture) over velvet cause I think it's sexier.
Put the gun in, use needles to set the fabric piece in place.

3/ Staples
Forgot to take a pic but I used a stapler to fix the piece of fabric on the papier plume box.

4/ Fitness

Fit the "bed" in the box. and there you go.

Next part: I'll add some foam between this part and the box and work on the top part.