Custom Display Cases
Acrylic Model Display Cases Enhance and Protect Your Model Art
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The display cases are made of a an optical grade acrylic that is crystal clear and of the highest quality. I only use solid oak for the bases, trim, and never use veneers or laminates. The customer benefits from fast production as I only need 5 to 7 workdays to produce any case order. The full acrylic cabinets are custom built and can be ordered with or without a beautiful oak base. Every case built is custom made to the exact size the customer desires and needs.
The clear top and sides are a minimum of 1/8" optical grade acrylic that are placed and formed to attain a very precise finished interior dimension. Customers use these acrylic covers to "exactly" fit over an existing base.
Acrylic Display Case with Oak Trim and Base
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The acrylic oak base and trimmed display cases are often offered to customers who need a case that exceed shipping size limitations. The design is sold as a customer assembly kit, and the kit provides everything the customer needs to assemble the display case as shown above. The acrylic is optical grade throughout and the wood is solid oak - no laminates or plywood!
Bent Edge Display Case
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The bent corner construction design display case provides the viewer with smoother viewing lines and it is overall a much better looking case. The design also adds strength to the overall case since the bent acrylic adds rigidity. The display case can bend to a maximum of 40" length of acrylic. Any case over 40" long would have to be constructed using the edge design.
Please note when using bent edge construction, the finished dimensions may be slightly over or under the exact customer specification since the acrylic never bends exactly the same on each case.
In the photo's here, you can get a sense of what bent acrylic construction entails. The long upper edges are actually bent and acrylic is affixed to the outside ends to complete a case. This involves heating the acrylic and using forms and jigs, creating the three sides of a case top. This works well with the routed edge oak bases used for mounting your models, as you can see. Some modelers asked for this effect, so Grandpa's Cabinets was eager to oblidge.
If you want this option used on your case, just specify on the quote request form. Please be aware, I am able to bend construct on cases where the overall length does not exceed 23". When a case is longer than that, constructed edges are required. Also, some modelers ask for very specific dimensions on their cases, and when this is the case, using the bent acrylic does not lend itself well to this because it's not always possible to hold the tolerances as tightly as with constructed cases.
I will always try to get as close to your specs as possible, but there will always be a little variation in the finished size of the inside of your case. However, the acrylic upper will always perfectly match the base no matter which option you choose.