Gun Safe Help...

There was a poster on here that refurbished an old safe that he had. Maybe he'll chime in. It turned out great from what I remember.

By saying bare metal on the inside, do you mean no fire protection sheet rock type stuff?

If you aren't looking for any fire resistance I would do particle board for the walls and shelves and then cover it with carpeting from Lowe's. You can also get the shelf brackets and hardware as needed.

Was the locking mechanism damaged in the fire?

Mine was lost in a boating accident

You can image search gun safes, shelves, lighting and come up with a lot of ideas

gypsum? sheetrock?

I had somewhat of a build log on here talking about my safe refurb.

There are 3 things you need to decide
1) Can you do it all yourself?
2) What type of budget do you have?
3) How far do you want to take the refurb?

I stripped out the inner fire-liner that was nothing more than high impact sheetrok (not the stuff you get at Home Depot). I left the outer liner there and added my own inner liner laminated with cork flooring which adds its own fire rating. If you at bare metal, if you want it to maintain the same fire rating, you likely will need to put both liners back before building shelves.

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Very nice. I am down to bare metal, and as a former cabinet maker, I believe that I can do the work myself. I just want to know what worked for others and what are musts and must nots.

Thanks.

Awesome stuff