Fencing Equipment Locker

[Jay83]

Greetings,

My friends and I have to design a locker to fit our fencing gear at the university. (Up till now, our coach has been lugging in hockey bags full of gear) I was wondering if anyone had any links/tips on designing a storage compartment for gear.

Thanks!

[Zelda]

Hi,
At UTas we use a huge builders chest. Its long enough for weapons and can be locked with a padlock or key. The chest is one of those silver type ones builders have on the backs of their utes to hold all their power tools and stuff. We hang our masks up on racks and our jackets on a clothes pole. Hope this helps!

[Peach]

For my little school club, our maintenance guys nailed up strips of wood with spacers so that we could hang all the masks up on the wall, slotting the tongues over the wood strips. They put coat hooks up for the uniforms. Because my kids mostly fence non-electric, we bought a big trash can for the weapons, and laundry baskets for everything else.

[Mergs]

Does this need to be something you can lock up equipment in? My club in Houston has one that one of the members built that opens like a big closet and has plenty of room for "stuff". Maybe Geezer can take some pics of it. I can also do some quick sketches for you. It's big and heavy, though. good luck

[adidas33k]

We're actually in the process of building more racks for our stuff. Right now, we put our weapons in a rack that's basicly at table with holes cut in it. It works well, but not if you need you're stuff locked up. We hang the jackets on a big clothes rack and the masks are up on top.

[KShan5[PrFC]]

A bag in my car trunk, thats about it.

[hpfencing]

Does it ned to be mobile or can it sit in place. How big an area do you have for it.

[geezer]

Have you got space? ...permission? ...the "where with all"? Our's is small for our club...plywood, "about" 6 ft. tall x 5ft. wide x 3ft. deep and on wheels to be movable, but not transportable without SERIOUS help. Bifrucated hinged doors (symetrically halved) about 10" deep with shelves and slots for storing weapons...main body shelved for hanging jackets, masks, storing stand, scoring boxes, reels and other stuff. Garage constructable...no rocket surgery needed. (Not room enough for a shower.) Good luck.

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[Dan H]

We just built ourselves a new equipment cabinet at CMU FC. We constructed it mostly from 3/4" plywood, held together with deck nails pounded into 2"x2" supports. It's 7' x 7' x 2'. The weapons are held in a compartment on one side specially made for them (we aligned and drilled holes in a couple pieces of plywood). The whole thing took 2 of us about 12 hours of work to complete. It cost $350 in materials.

[Jay83]

Thank you for all your advice/questions! There are obviously some things I have to consider...

Essentially we are trying to fit lots of stuff, with the least amount of space available. We came up with two ideas for the foils; the drilling holes in a board and sticking them through, or have them on a slight incline with notches so that you can fit two foils at each slot. (One pointing up and the other pointing down. If you fitted them in directly from the top, wouldn't they be hard to take out of a closet?

(Sorry for the late reply, university just started up and we spent a lot of time advertising our club.)

[Dan H]

I'm having trouble picturing your second method of storing foils. I can tell you that with our method (two pieces of plywood with holes drilled halfway through the bottom and all the way through the top), we can easily fit 45 weapons in a 3 1/2' x 2' (x 4' high) compartment. We could have drilled more holes to cram in more, but with 45 holes staggered in rows of 5 and 4, there's plenty of room for the weapons we have.

[Jay83]

I do like it that way with the holes in the table.... but the way we were looking at were slots in a board... kind of like how wine glasses are held in a rack.

The other way we were looking at was just a shelf with the ends cut off so that the we could lay them down on the shelf with the guards and handles hanging off the side.