same as the other Pic with door closed...

Hog

nice work!!! Hog!!

No, outstanding work Hog! It's just too bad I'm so ancient that I served before the time of Challenge Coins. My son recently received one personally from the Chief Of Staff of the Army. It's one of his proudest possessions. I think he has 10-12 in all, half of them from the combat zone. Yeah, I'm proud of him. Tuck

Hog..I almost became a FIB....turned it down....job in North Central IL

That's incredible Hog! I particularly like the finish.

Beautiful case.

Is that a second one that you started next to it? Great job!!!!!!

Very nice job ,Hog, If your a collector of coins (which is obvious,lol) I have a couple of mini siver coin sets (presidents and 50 states complete sets{older} )if interested in a trade. email me

lionsandtigers1

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hotmail

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can send you some pics of them as well

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Outstanding once again. My wife let me put my favorite challenge coins in the china cabinet. She's smart enought to know that I will now look at the cabinet at least once a week.

John

that’s one awesome and beautiful thing hog.....

BTW Wish I had one.

great work hog-looks like the shelves are dadoed, yes? (hard to tell for sure from the pic) nice touch.

maybe we should come up with plans for a cbid forum humi and have a wood working herf for us woodworkers-lol. if only i had a big shop (if only i had a shop at all right now).

Lions - Those are not coins, per se. They are very special medallions, called "Challenge Coins". They are a great honor to receive. They are usually awarded by a military commander, or other person in authority, to the receipient, who has distinguished himself in some way, above and beyond the call of duty. Not a medal, which is given by the unit, or the service, these are awarded by a person, in recognition of unusually outstanding service.

oh I am sorry I didn't realize , thank you for letting me know , either way thet is a great display .

Thanks All for the compliments...

this case was a bear to put together and keep square while gluing up.. being two piece it really made it a challenge.

kdotline, I didn't use a daddo on this one.. instead I used my router with dovetail bit and lining up the grooves were very time consuming and allot of scrap wood LOL... the second one shown not finished yet I used the Daddo on... allot faster with same results

tuckersdad777, some of these shown are challenge coins I had recieved through the years.. but many of them are Unit coins I purchased usually from the Units First Sgts, as our unit would do Coalition Combat Missions with these units or other exercises along side

and some of these coins are left overs from a purchase myself and our Safety officers went in together on...

But I just diplayed them to give the fill of the use of the case shown... Congrats to your Son! may he have a long and wonderful career!

Lions, NP.. if you are looking for simular type cases for your coins I'll shoot you an email? I am not a coin collector.. but I do have a few Susan B's 1921-1929 my grandpa gave to me along with a few other silver coins I've tossed in a keepsake box...

J.Redleg, shoot me an email.. got a question for you..

usahog(at)hotmail(dot)com

Hog

BTW, great t-shirt of Lincoln smoking a cigar. Nice case.

Ha... Hey Dr.. that is a shirt from the Annual Land Of Lincoln Herf held every year here locally...

I missed this years herf ;0( I cought the flu from the step daughter who cought it from school and then the Mrs. got it as well and we were down for the count the entire weekend... I had 5 Gal of roadkill chili that we had to freeze.. and missed a damn good time I am sure!

Hog

I'll proudly testify Hog does some DAMN pretty work! You need something, he'll do it right!!!!

Haa! this one is going up on the shelf to collect dust... I took it out and introduced it to the person who ordered it.. and the color is wrong? anyways I'm back to killing some more tree's and getting the color right this next time... glad I didn't put a lock on it eh? LOL

Hog

if he didn't like it he's an idiot!