[Rockhounds] ideal mineral cabinet

[Nathan Martin]

Armando,
A couple of years ago I had Steve Reutlinger (Monadnock Mineral and Display)
build me a custom mineral cabinet to basic specifications that I laid out.
The base unit is 41.5" wide x 23" deep x 33" high and had six 36" wide x 20"
deep full-extension sliding drawers (four 4" tall and two 5" tall).  The
display unit sits on top of the base and measures 40" wide x 12" deep x 41"
tall and has four 10" wide glass shelves.  The display is illuminated at the
top and along each side by halogen lights.

Steve did a wonderful job on the cabinet and I am very pleased with it.  The
full extension drawers are especially useful because they permit you to
easily see every specimen that you have placed in them.  If it is useful to
you I can email you my original concept sketches and photos of the finished
cabinet.

Good luck with your project!

Nate Martin
Lexington, MA

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Armando Afonso <armandoafonso at oniduo.pt>
wrote:

> Hi all.
> I am considering to design a mineral cabinet from scratch, with separate
> modules of drawers.
> In the experience of the group, what should be the ideal footprint of the
> drawers?
> The height, obviously depends of the max size of the specimens, thank you.
> :-)
>
>


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