Recently I bought from Raymond one LaGard 33e electronic safe lock.
It's SOOOOOOO cool!
So, the next obvious step was to build a display for it!
So here are the steps:
First, the marking of the pieces on the wood:
Just before gluing them:
Holes to pass the spindle and wires (the little 2 dots are to make holes for the screws so that they don't fracture the wood):
The hole thing mounted and glued (notice the gaps on the wood, I'm not very handy at cutting and did it sloppy):
Now I began to fill those gaps with a special product for that (you will notice that the hands are from a women. My girlfriend was helping me to build this. Before you start asking if we swaped places, while she was filling the gaps in the wood, I was cutting this lock
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After drying, it was time to sand it down 'till it was smooth! And then varnish the hole thing (is that the correct word?):
Then I started to work with the lock itself. First, I (I mean my girlfriend!) sanded the metal part just a bit more:
Then screwed the keypad holder in place:
The battery in place:
The spindle and the washer in place:
The body of the lock already mounted and connected:
View from the front:
I got a custom made plate for it with the code, so it'll be a nice conversational piece (idea from GWiens2001!):
And the front of it, finished:
I must say that the pictures don't reveal the full colour of the wood. In reality it looks much better, but you get the big picture.
Also I know that the fact of puting the battery on the front is arguable. I accept that you may not think it was a good idea, but my reasons were that I needed to make a battery holder. So the keypad would have to be pushed to one of the sides. In order to make it in a way that the display wouldn't be so empty, I opted to put the battery in the front, so people can see that this works with just a 9V battery (again, conversational piece).
Please tell me your thoughts so I can improve on future projects
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