chips*dad
Upstanding Member
...well, you get the point.
I've not been posting much since deciding to trade one hobby (cardboard) for another (2000 Corvette). Took me better than 2 years to sell off most everything I'd collected, and after I built a garage for the car, I quickly scrapped any plans of finishing the interior off and, instead, I just used it to display the items I hadn't sold off, many of which were personalized anyway.
Odd ball stuff, game sticks, photos - even something of a family museum, with the original door knocker from where I grew up, a lantern that was in dad's basement when he bought that house more than 50 years ago, some travel souveniers, etc. Eclectic, yes, but I have to say, it's kinda cool to just cut studs and make new space when you want to, and display what you want.
OK, long intro - bear with me, again, I've been away! And for the first time in a LONG time, I bought a few items that made me smirk like a 15 year old who borrowed dad's car for the night.
So, first, the swag. For less than the cost of a single pack of many products today, all OAL baseballs, all with authenticated sigs from three legends...
OK, the Orr's a little lighter than I'd have liked for a pen and the Howe has a tiny smudge, but in all, these are very nice sigs on OAL balls, and came delivered for under $100 from the same seller.
Back to the garage and the beauty of being able to display what you want, however you want, without putting up shelves that take up valuable space in a 1-stall garage:
Step 1, Pick a Spot.
Step 2: Measure and put another stud over the original one, and tape it off before spray painting the interior black, and sticking a shot of Orr raising the cup to the rear of the opening and put up a plug in light:
Step 3: place the balls inside, cut plexi to fit over the opening, and plug the light into a power bar attached in another stuff, which turns on a few different displays all with one switch:
Not fancy, but I like it.
Similar set up, unlit, for an auto'd Milt Schmidt glove:
Built the box out to hold the base of this Fenway park replica, which although you can't really tell in the shot, it's lit inside, working off the same power strip as the baseball display. Looking for a Boston skyline shot to paste to the back of the opening:
The rest of the garage? Funny you should ask...
Yes, that's a small refrigerator... what am I - an animal? :giggity:
This is cool. The BIG caricature was done by a local artist and signed by Joe and Sammy, and we bought it at a Bruins' Wives Event. The little caricature if of me and the bride, done 16 years earlier. Imagine my surprise when I realized the same artist did both drawings...
Anyway, thought some may find it of interest. And nice to check in with folks.
Regards,
Dave
I've not been posting much since deciding to trade one hobby (cardboard) for another (2000 Corvette). Took me better than 2 years to sell off most everything I'd collected, and after I built a garage for the car, I quickly scrapped any plans of finishing the interior off and, instead, I just used it to display the items I hadn't sold off, many of which were personalized anyway.
Odd ball stuff, game sticks, photos - even something of a family museum, with the original door knocker from where I grew up, a lantern that was in dad's basement when he bought that house more than 50 years ago, some travel souveniers, etc. Eclectic, yes, but I have to say, it's kinda cool to just cut studs and make new space when you want to, and display what you want.
OK, long intro - bear with me, again, I've been away! And for the first time in a LONG time, I bought a few items that made me smirk like a 15 year old who borrowed dad's car for the night.
So, first, the swag. For less than the cost of a single pack of many products today, all OAL baseballs, all with authenticated sigs from three legends...
OK, the Orr's a little lighter than I'd have liked for a pen and the Howe has a tiny smudge, but in all, these are very nice sigs on OAL balls, and came delivered for under $100 from the same seller.
Back to the garage and the beauty of being able to display what you want, however you want, without putting up shelves that take up valuable space in a 1-stall garage:
Step 1, Pick a Spot.
Step 2: Measure and put another stud over the original one, and tape it off before spray painting the interior black, and sticking a shot of Orr raising the cup to the rear of the opening and put up a plug in light:
Step 3: place the balls inside, cut plexi to fit over the opening, and plug the light into a power bar attached in another stuff, which turns on a few different displays all with one switch:
Not fancy, but I like it.
Similar set up, unlit, for an auto'd Milt Schmidt glove:
Built the box out to hold the base of this Fenway park replica, which although you can't really tell in the shot, it's lit inside, working off the same power strip as the baseball display. Looking for a Boston skyline shot to paste to the back of the opening:
The rest of the garage? Funny you should ask...
Yes, that's a small refrigerator... what am I - an animal? :giggity:
This is cool. The BIG caricature was done by a local artist and signed by Joe and Sammy, and we bought it at a Bruins' Wives Event. The little caricature if of me and the bride, done 16 years earlier. Imagine my surprise when I realized the same artist did both drawings...
Anyway, thought some may find it of interest. And nice to check in with folks.
Regards,
Dave
