Medal stands for the guys who loves DIY

[Lt Visser]

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[Lt Visser]

If anyone is interested in looking at the stuff i made i can send you pics to make it yourself...

[Adam S.]

Just upload to photobucket and link it here. Or become an association member.

[Lt Visser]

Hi guys. I've allways had a problem with medal stands that you can buy. They never make provision for ribbons. So I made my own. tell me what you think.....


So you cut the pieces of wood like in the pictures above, drill 2 holes and paste filt (don't know the english word) to it and then make a cut in the front, the same width as the ribbon.....


Then you put the ribbon through the cut in the filt.......


Then you secure it with 2 screws. Don't over tighten the screws or you will compress the ribbon too much.


Then you paste filt to the rest of the wooden parts.....and there you go! If you have a long ribbon it can stick out at the back and it's not in the way! Tell me what you think.

[Etienne B.]

Hi there,

Nice idea Thanks for the photos.

Etienne

[Chris D.]

very good idea. thanks!

[mfh7200]

Very good idea, Thanks for posting.

[armorrich]

Neat idea!!! Think i might give it a try myself.....simple but effective and it makes for a stunning display of a nice medal and ribbon.....best, rich

[Rylan]

Very good way to display medals, I really like your idea.

[JamesM]

Well done! Thanks for sharing, the medals look really nice.

[John Macrini]

That is a great idea! using the desired color of felt really compliments the medal nicely! and the best part about these is that they look really easy to construct!

I'm off to Home depot!

Thanks for sharing this idea!

[Adam S.]

[Paulus_Gun]

It looks extremely nice, but one thing concerns me: Won't the ribbon colour mess up years from now? If a small part of the ribbon is stuck in a dark space and the rest isn't.. Won't you end up with a ribbon with a sunlight infected part and an uninfected part (dark-light contrast)?

[mr bridger]

first class

[Lt Visser]

Paulus Gun,
The ribbons that do stick out at the back is anyways way to long. On some of my medals there is only 1 or 2mm that is clamped in place. It's usually the unissued medals that has those extra long ribbons.

What you can do in that case is to use a longer piece of wood and let the medal hang on it's full length of the ribbon and only clamp down 1 or 2 mm.

Thanks for the nice replies.

Lt Visser