I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this. I have a question for all you creative types.
I just was given this from a friend that is renovating a New York Life office and I have all the instructions and all the combinations for all the doors. It’s pretty cool, the instructions tell me how to change the combinations if I wanted to. I know there are several people making banks out of individual doors, but I was thinking of trying to use the entire thing, maybe a side table/cabinet.
The locks are made so when you get the combination right and open the door, the dials move and if you shut the door it locks so you have to use the combo again. I’m sure I can defeat that, however until I figure out what the best thing to use this for I can’t get started.
It is housed in a nasty formica wrapped box. I hope someone might have an idea of what could be made.
Wow! What an awesome acquisition! Yeah, I think a lot of people would break it apart and make a bunch of little banks with it. I’d probably do something stupid like use it to hold nuts and screws in my shop. It’s really just a conversation piece in my mind, and I don’t have any good ideas for you with it, but I think it’s awesome! Congratulations!
Ryan/// ~sigh~ I blew up another bowl. Moke told me "I made the inside bigger than the outside".
I see a spice rack, on a lazy susan bearing for ez access. Make an attractive outside box, maybe some line and berry inlay. All the locks are the show side, spin it around to get the spices.
There's roosters laying chickens,and chickens laying eggs... John Prine
i dont know maybe incorporate it into and end table ? i made several banks as gifts a couple years ago so id probably just separate em. more bang for the buck.
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
If there was a club of some sort, members could be given one or two doors in a cabinet like you posted the pic of. They would be responsible for their own combos. However they should be recorded somewhere, in case the member suddenly croaked, or just left without word, so the space could be re-keyed/changed, and given to someone else.
Space could be used to store keys, or stuff to use or access whatever the club was about.
It's a cool piece John, show use how you end up using it.
If you were a tea drinker, you could use each compartment to hold different specialist tea bags. You know, English breakfast tea in No.1, Darjeeling in No.2, Assam in No.3, Earl Grey in No.4, etc. Then, you could impress your friends by asking them which tea they'd like, spin the combination dials to retrieve a tea bag, make their tea and dispose of the used tea bag through the letterbox. LOL.
Andy -- Old Chinese proverb say: If you think something can't be done, don't interrupt man who is doing it.
So it does. Great idea. You could put a different woodworking tool in each box and surprise yourself with every box you open. Your grandkids wouldn't be very happy, but you'd have a great Christmas.
Andy -- Old Chinese proverb say: If you think something can't be done, don't interrupt man who is doing it.
The advent sounds cool, but limited to seasonal use. I always lusted after those dark grey storage drawer clusters of about the same proportions, but I doubt I could commit the spaces to any single purpose without regretting "what could have been"
Thanks guys those ideas were funny. Brit I think the tea idea might actually have some merit. If I disable the lock so the dials just spin and all you have to do is push the latch to open the door. I feel like I really have to do something with it. I don't want it to go to waste and it takes up a lot of space. I might have to try using AI to come up with an idea. 😜
as last resort john you can just divide it up and make individual items with them. a few years ago i made banks for all the office people at my work. they loved em.
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
