Darn it, I wish you had posted this sooner! I have a couple original Freeland boxes, but also had two nicely made copies I sold at the Greeley show for $15 each. 
But good news is Hampel's Woodland Products sells nice one cheap also that are perfect copy of Freeland's. $20 for .22Short, and $22 for .22LR.

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Here's an original one. Kind of pricey compared to the one Vall posted a link to.

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Another high-end option from Brad Swenson (b-swenson@sbcglobal.net).

Wayne

Those boxes are neat. Sure beats those little buggers rolling around loose on your bench...



JMH

I’m sure you’re right about that type of shop and pricing structure. I walked away from three and four axis  routers years ago instead deciding to train and put people to work. My last two shops went from modern Italian machinery to old top quality American made machines ( Porter,Oliver,Tannewitz, Oakley, Fay & Egan,etc ) machines that only needed paint, bearings and tooling to run another fifty years. But they required good operators who I made sure never spent all their time on one or two machines but learned the entire shop process. I was an incubator. 

Overhead was tricky since good quality timber is pretty scarce at reasonable prices and hunting it down time consuming and then constant insurance squabbles. My last real shop was a good group of six to eight men and women. Contrary to what I was told we structured the books to profit sharing. Almost overnight the crew quit looking at the clock and when we were up against it making an order date they’d show up Saturdays to get it done. Everything got better, morale,efficiency quality. You’ll never see that in larger CNC shops. The other thing you don’t see in most CCN router shops is a good defect sorting man who runs the cut off saw to reduce waste and knowing his crew isn’t afraid of grain anomalies that yield beauty but explode in the path of a 20k rpm router bit. Made less enjoyed it more. 

Rick

The Hampels box is hard to beat. If you call and speak with him, he is willing to do custom work. I'm very happy with mine and have used them as gifts/prizes.

watchthewind wrote on May 27^th, 2024 at 2:41pm:


They are a small business, not some big time company with lots of employees. But extremely nice to deal with, and unless it's a custom build they ship the next work day after ordering. I think they've got a niche they fill and by making specific sizes they're able to keep prices low.
I'm going to contact them again soon to ask about a custom size rifle case that will be unfinished inside so I can build it out for a rifle and shooting kit.