Security Options
Safety and security are a main concern with us when we craft our gun cabinetry.
There are many choices to make ae we help you design your Amish custom crafted gun cabinet. There is overall case sizes, various display methods, case shapes to fit your location, different solid hardwoods to choose from, different styles and moldings you can select, a wide array of drawer and door panels, and hundreds of other design aspects we can change to fit your needs and dreams.
But one last detail that usually doesn’t affect the overall appearance but makes a big impact on your custom gun cabinet or wall hanging pistol cabinet are the different security choices we offer. There are different types of glass, different lock types and lock locations, different types of long gun and pistol security measures to prevent gun removal, steel case reinforcement and hidden steel doors. A gun cabinet can be purely for display purposes or it can be crafted to provide nearly as much security as a steel gun safe.
Solid Hardwood construction.
We use solid hardwood doors, frames and side case panels in every case, with screwed and glued joinery. Our wood casework alone, if secured to the floor or wall, is not easily breached.
Door and drawer styles
A flush inset design option, one of our most popular style designs also, using our solid lumber doors and drawers has no exposed edges to get fingers or tools behind, making them the most difficult to pry open. You can’t grab the edge of the doors to rip them off the case.
Concealed Drawers and Shelves
Lockable sliding tops and pop out hidden drawers can keep valuable items both close and secure. Lockable drop shelves can be sized and styled to work in any room and offer fast secure access with a concealed magnetic “key”.
Door and Drawer locks
We put keyed locks on every opening by default, single locks on drawers and two locks on every larger door.
Types of Display Glass
While we not infrequently create cases with solid hardwood doors, most of our clients want to be able to see and enjoy at least a part of their collection.
- Standard Single Pane Glass of any thickness provides only basic
security to keep small fingers and casual contact away from your collection. It can easily be broken and removed allowing access. As laminated glass as below does not come with a cost increase, we very seldom use this method. - Laminated Safety Glass has been our “standard” glass for many years. It is similar to what is used in auto windshields. Laminated safety glass is created by bonding together two layers of glass with a layer of resin under high
heat and pressure. Because of the bonding process and the sandwiched layer of “plastic” this provides more protection for your gun collection than the standard glass panes.
While the glass itself can be cracked and a layer can broken, it requires a much harder impact. Then when “cracked,” it barely bends and does not come apart, thanks to the lamination layer. Rather than falling out when broken, requiring numerous impacts, it literally has to be crushed and folded out of solid wood framed doors.
We utilize even thicker laminated glass when the design calls for a added strength or a thicker, fancier beveled glass display.
- Our most secure “glass” option is 3/8 and 1/2″ Polycarbonate. Polycarbonate is created with a thermoplastic polymer that is
molded into different thickness sheets. Polycarbonate comes with different brands such as Makrolon or Lexan. While more costly, polycabonate provides much more security that can take up to 70 times more impact resistant that standard glass. Using polycarbonate on your Amish custom gun cabinet or pistol display cabinet will provide the top level of security. Our 1/2 inch thick polycarb will turn a 38 caliber at close range. We use a better grade of scratch resistant poly for easier cleaning. The only negative to using the poly-carb is the cost. It will add about $375 per door.
We can incorporate any of these “glasses” into door views or case side panels.
Cable Locks
We can install secured eye bolts in any number, usually at trigger level to attach, rubberized cable and padlocks. This can include all the guns in the cabinet in one length, or smaller groups as desired. Washered bolts either thru our standard wood backs or thru steel or aluminum sheet reinforced backs can not be pulled thru and will require a bolt cutter to remove.
Locking Security Bars
One way to add additional security to your Amish custom made long gun cabinet is to add individually locking, wood clad, steel backed security bars
to the interior of the cabinet. A pair of locking security bars prevent your long guns, rifles, shotguns, or even archery equipment from being removed should someone does breach your cabinet doors.
Our security bars are made of 2″x3/4″ solid lumber with 1″ steel bars inset and concealed into their back. Custom welded lock mounts hold tubular plug locks hold keep each bar securely in the case.
The gun bars whether on vertical displays or on horizontal displays are usually install in two locations, closely fit along the barrel on the upper interior of the gun cabinet and along the trigger guard area lower in the cabinet. This prevents 
would be robbers from from accessing your gun cabinet then angling the guns side to side in order to pull the guns out.
In addition to actually securing the guns in the case while the doors are open, they visually look good and are intimidating in their own right
Steel or Sheet Aluminum Case Reinforcement
If you desire the maximum cabinet integrity while retaining the beauty of fine wood cabinets, we can reinforce our gun cabinetry with steel angles. While our standard solid wood construction includes wood to wood screwed and glued joints, with tools, time and effort, the cabinets can be pried apart. With the cabinets made in this reinforced fashion, it becomes a matter of complete destruction to access the secured display. It becomes extremely difficult to remove a cabinet from a wall. This is a back view of one of our pistol display cabinets. On this cabinet we installed angled 
steel on the top and bottom of cabinet so that the cabinet could be secured through the steel into the studs in our customers wall for extra security.
We recently added a solid 3/16 aluminum sheet to the back of a corner cabinet. With the displayed weapons secured into this case, either individually or with the security bars above and then the case secured thru the solid sheet into the studs, it will be close to impossible to remove this collection without permission
Lastly, Individual Long gun or Pistol Locks
An extra security lock we use on our custom pistol display cabinets.
This individual lock secures the weapon thru the trigger gard and can be lag screwed into the case back, the wall behind the cabinet or, in high security cases, the trigger lock can be mounted through a metal back plate. With added barrel support in place, again screwed into the case back or wall guns are not going anywhere with out permission. The hanging trigger lock can be ordered as a 3 number combination lock or a standard keyed trigger lock.
As mentioned earlier, we can’t protect like a fire safe, but short of that, we can add a lot of additional security so you can enjoy your collection.