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Ever met a guy and said; "hey... he is all right in my book"
Well, if you ever get a chance to meet Mike or Tedd of Custom Firearm Stands, you will... well at least I did.
I met Mike a few gun shows ago and was asking question about his products and what they can do and can't do (which is next to nothing). I had a problem in my gun safe with my two shelves sagging from the weight. My pistols were alway falling over and I couldn't afford to sacrifice more space to a bunch of pistols racks. Well, Mike suggested a custom shelf with his pistol racks built into the shelf. What an AWESOME idea that turned out to be. As I was cleaning out the shelves I found stuff I thought I had lost and saw how much weight my old shelves were holding.
The old shelves were most likely press board wrapped in the felt like material from the safe company to match the interior. One of the shelves had some cuts in them, from the factory making it almost impractical to do its job as a shelf. Mike finally arrived with the new shelves (mind you he took measurements from after the Puyallup gunshow) and help me install them. Good God were they heavy but beautiful. I wished I had taken a before pic (sorry Mike I should have thought of that sooner) because I broke out the camera and took my after pics. I am emailing them to Mike to let him post. I did take pics of the old shelves laying on the ground to show how they are bowed (ruined in my opinion) forever... HA! Stupid OEM shelves from the safe factory.
Mike and I found out that the material he used (1.25" thick) was overkill. He could have gotten away with .75" or even .5" thickness and still had the same results. Paper stone is some really good material. Not cheap but, well worth its price for the quality you get.
I would highly recommend Custom Firearm Stands for any project. By the way, the AR-15 stand you made for me doesn't sit in the house, I use as my stand for cleaning. Break Free and the other cleaning fluids doesn't even leave a residue on the Paper Stone. Heck if I could afford it I would have my work bench redone in that stuff.
SF-
Well, if you ever get a chance to meet Mike or Tedd of Custom Firearm Stands, you will... well at least I did.
I met Mike a few gun shows ago and was asking question about his products and what they can do and can't do (which is next to nothing). I had a problem in my gun safe with my two shelves sagging from the weight. My pistols were alway falling over and I couldn't afford to sacrifice more space to a bunch of pistols racks. Well, Mike suggested a custom shelf with his pistol racks built into the shelf. What an AWESOME idea that turned out to be. As I was cleaning out the shelves I found stuff I thought I had lost and saw how much weight my old shelves were holding.
The old shelves were most likely press board wrapped in the felt like material from the safe company to match the interior. One of the shelves had some cuts in them, from the factory making it almost impractical to do its job as a shelf. Mike finally arrived with the new shelves (mind you he took measurements from after the Puyallup gunshow) and help me install them. Good God were they heavy but beautiful. I wished I had taken a before pic (sorry Mike I should have thought of that sooner) because I broke out the camera and took my after pics. I am emailing them to Mike to let him post. I did take pics of the old shelves laying on the ground to show how they are bowed (ruined in my opinion) forever... HA! Stupid OEM shelves from the safe factory.
Mike and I found out that the material he used (1.25" thick) was overkill. He could have gotten away with .75" or even .5" thickness and still had the same results. Paper stone is some really good material. Not cheap but, well worth its price for the quality you get.
I would highly recommend Custom Firearm Stands for any project. By the way, the AR-15 stand you made for me doesn't sit in the house, I use as my stand for cleaning. Break Free and the other cleaning fluids doesn't even leave a residue on the Paper Stone. Heck if I could afford it I would have my work bench redone in that stuff.
SF-
