Flag Display Case

[Dale Cruea]

My nephew and his lovely wife asked me if I would make a flag display case for her grandfather's flag. I feel very honored by their request.
I have also wanted to build a case for my brother's burial flag but never found or came up with a nice design that did not look generic.

Now I need a special or at least a nice design for both of these cases.
I don't know yet if the grandpa has any metals of ribbons to display. I do know my brother has a few and I would like to display them also.

If you have any ideas I will be very happy to about them.

Also if you have any does or don't about flag display cases I would like to hear them also.

Some site on the internet say to seal the case and others say you don't need to.


Thank you,
Dale

[Bill Bukovec]

Search for this site for:

Flag case for dad's flag

Does this help?

What size is the flag? I had thouht about making a case for a craft sale.

Bill

[George Gyulatyan]

The latest issue of Woodsmith magazine has an article on building a flag case that might be a good place to start:
http://www.woodsmith.com/magazine/sources/201/flag-case/

You might also want to do a Google/Bing image search.

Take a look at http://www.gettysburgflag.com/memcase.php. They also indicate the internal dimensions of the cases, which might be helpful to you.

HTH.

[Dale Cruea]

I don't have the dims to either flag yet. Still trying to find out if metals, ribbons or discharge papers will be displayed.
Thanks for the links.

DAC

[Ryan Baker]

You might want to try something like this (http://www.thomasjmacdonald.com/content/behind-the-scenes/season-01-behind-the-scenes/season-01-ep-05/) one Tommy Mac built on Rough Cut.

[Frederick Gross]

When I was making shadow boxes for guys retiring, the outside dimensions were 18"wide x 24"tall. That size box held the flag and then had room for medals/ribbins badges. The depth was determined by the material the flag was made out of; cotton required a thicker box than a nylon flag.

If it was an internement shadow box, the dimensions were more like 24"wide x 24" tall or taller depending on different factors.

I will have to check to see if I have any old dimensioned drawings anywhere.

If you want, I can post some photos of examples.