After a couple of months spent in the garage, 342 trips to hardware and automotive paint stores, maxing out a credit card on paint and sand paper (!), having to take The Redhead to Fredericksburg to get reacquainted after my absence, multiple attempts at removing sanding dust from my clothes and everything else in the garage, this is the result:

The sign on the front of the ammo box, hidden by 4 guns and 2 cleaning rods, says, "The Wimpy Loadz Ammunition Mannufacturing Co., Inc." I am fully sponsored by them and use nothing but Wimpy Loadz in my guns.

Note the coat hooks on the sides in case I need to hand a shotgun belt, an empty cartridge bag, and/or a matching black and cowhide drink cooler.

Lettering is gold, found looking for foam rubber for the seat. Not visible, a Mercedes-Benz SLK First Aid Kit is attached to the inner surface of the back wall, leaving plenty of room for the guns. Badge collection optional at extra cost. The "Military Order of the Purple Heart" badge was very expensive.

Note the matching black and cowhide drink cooler. Another brass handle is on the top of the lid to the ammunition box.

Automotive primer, Krylon epoxy enamel and clear coat, number of coats unknown, but way too many. Several BOXES of wet/dry 240, 320, 400, 600, and 1500 grit sand paper used wet on a sanding block.

The vertical supports' outside edges were radiused with a table router just for aesthetic reasons, not necessary for functioning, of course, just as most of the finishing wasn't neccessary (or even sane).

The lid of the big box was covered with a hair on calf hide from Texas Jack's in Fredericksburg over a foam rubber pad:

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