American Furniture Classics 540 Wood Lockable Hope Chest with Gun Concealment and Accessory Tray, 5 Gun, Brown, 1 Chest

Beautiful. A challenge to put together. The hinges that hold the top open are useless. They won’t bend even after oiling… Works without them, but a little disappointing.The wood finish was darker than I expected, but is even better! It is very large and will store a lot.

So as far as build quality and functionality, it’s decent, nothing bad but nothing amazing. It gets the job done with looking like a normal storage box, and it holds 5 long guns very well with room for hand guns or other valuables.The pain comes from building the dang thing, it’s very tricky and easy to screw up. I recommend having at least 2 other people to help you with parts to make sure everything is lined up and for the last step because someone needs to hold the lid while the other screws and someone else to hold a light. Make sure you follow the directions because at least for me the stickers weren’t very legible so I messed up a few parts and installed them backwards, not the biggest deal in the world for me but my wife notices the gaps (about 1/8th of an inch gap on the side and a 1/4 inch on the top of the other side)Overall it’s a cheaper and less obvious place to put your firearms or valuables, it’s a decent storage box, but the building part is rough and easy to screw up.

I didn't think it was possible to find lower quality products than those made in China, boy was I wrong! Made in Vietnam makes made in China seem like a Swiss watch. I give this thing one star just for the packing material everything else is zero stars.First, be sure you have the following on hand as you will be needing them. A small drill bit for drilling pilot holes for the screws, A large drill bit for opening up misaligned holes, a 1/4"-20 tap, lots of super glue, fender washers for the opened up holes, lots of rags, and lots of hours.To call this material particle board or MDF would be an insult. It looks more like a heavily compressed cardboard which flakes away pretty easily and several pieces had what looked like some type of wood filler, luckily they were all facing inwards and on the very bottom. This is where the super glue comes in. On all the pre-drilled holes I put a good amount of it the holes to bind the material together and keep it from crumbling. I also did this to all the holes which I had to drill. That's what the 1/8 pilot drill is for. Make sure you pre-drill all your pilot holes, don't just screw into the little marks as I fear this would just cause the material to crumble. Also, on mine some hole locations were not marked and I had to measure them out.Next you're going to have to use a 1/4" drill bit to open up most of the bottom holes as they didn't line up with the pre-installed hardware. You'll have to apply side pressure on your drill so that you can actually make a slot out of the hole. Some holes had to be opened up so much that I had to use fender washers as the screw would fall completely through the opened up hole.Once I had all my holes drilled out and went to install the screws they would not tighten. Well, I discovered that all of the barrel nuts didn't have any threads. That's what the 1/4"-20 tap is for, you're going to have to thread them. Unless of course you get lucky and yours are already threaded.So after I had everything all lined up and squared, I tightened all the screws down. DO NOT OVER-TIGHTEN ! The material is so cheap that even a little to much torque will cause the screw to strip out.When putting in the tray I noticed that the joinery was horrible and one of the side pieces was cracking because of the nails. So I put some more super glue into the crack to keep it from opening up more.The inner lid is not fully supported at the back, it has no support underneath it, only at the front. The only thing holding it up in the back are the hinges, with this cheap material I don't know how long it will last.The top lid had marks for the stay open hinges, but the sides did not, so I had to measure those out, and you guessed it more super glue into the holes. After installing the stay open hinges everything seemed OK and it looked like I as coming to the home stretch. I closed the top lid but it took an awful lot of force to do so. When I opened the lid the screws which hold the stay open hing pulled out of the lid. After examining the hinges closely and actually articulating them in my hands I found that they required about 40-50 Lbs of force to open or close because the spring is so large. Well, the combination of the small mounting screws and cheap material make it impossible to use these hinges. They will just rip out. So I got some gas springs which are rated at 22Lbs and have larger diameter screws. This seems to have done the trick as the lid now opens and closes fine.The final part was screwing the feet into the bottom. They went in fine but they look horrible! You can clearly see the seems where it looks like they glued different pieces together and filled any flaw with more wood putty. All 4 of them also had an extra hole on the bottom that looks like it was drilled off center. Maybe they have a blind worker?Finally! Finished! Well, almost. I went to peel off the labels and they just tear off leaving behind a horrible glue residue. You're going to need lots of rags and elbow grease to get rid off it. I didn't use any solvents on it because I was afraid it would destroy the cheap material.Oh, one final thing. This think stinks! I mean it literally stinks, the odor coming off of it is horrible. I've had it for over two weeks now, and while not as bad as when I first got it, it still stinks.In conclusion, an absolutely horribly cheap piece of junk which will cost you lots of time in rework and having to purchase extra hardware for it. Unless you're really handy don't even attempt it. I would have sent it back except that the box is so bad there is no way you'll be able to re-pack it.

Read before you buy... Its a beautiful Thursday, I get an email notifying me that my package has been delivered. I'm filled with excitement. My gun bench has arrived. I feel like a little kid at Christmas eve......just waiting for the hours to pass so i can get home and check out my new concealment bench that will house my rifles. 5 pm finally arrives, my wife and i hop into the car and make the drive home. we pass open fields of orange groves. The smell of the orange blossoms filling the air gives a sense of childlike wonderment. Cow pastures, fly by and we are soon turning onto a dirt road. It's a 5 minute drive down the dirt road until we make the left onto our dirt road. I can see the edge of our driveway about 150 yards away. No package yet.....100 yards....still no package. Finally we are about 50 yards from the driveway and then i see it. I was so excited that i did not realize the horror until my wife said it. "Oh look now everybody that has driven down the road knows you have a Gun Concealment Bench"...........It hit me like a ton of bricks........I was so mad, and upset at the same time......nothing but foul language escaped my mouth for the next 15min. We live in a very rural area, but at the end of our road is a upick. this upick is open on odd days and that Thursday was a day it was open. So every person that drove down that road, which could be in the 30's or 40's drove by my driveway and read the GIANT LETTERS "GUN CONCEALMENT BENCH" with an F-ing picture on the side. Who in the hell does that, why in the hell would you do that. I mean the least the company could have done was put duck tape or gift wrap the damn thing. This way none of your neighbors will see this giant box with "GUN CONCEALMENT BENCH" on the side of it and be like hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wonder whats in there. So the moral of the story is make sure you have the package gift wrapped when you buy it so no one will see the giant letters on the side of the stupid box. P.S i spoke with the manufacturer and his is response is "we sell to other vendors and in stores so we have to have a description and picture to help our sales in stores.That is horse S^$#^%............................i could argue all day about what they could have done. I all i can do is save you from the heart ache of seeing this thing sitting outside with its giant words on the side. GET IT GIFT WRAPPED.Please. The bench was amazing. I liked the storage and the style. The bench was very comfortable. The price was great. This product would have gotten 5 stars but the packaging was ridicules.