Custom Display Case Base Styles and Colour Options
Choose the custom display case base style that best suits your item, display space and preferred finish. Each option is made to your chosen size, with different base styles available depending on the look, size and function you need.
Traditional Wooden Base Display Case
Our display cases with a wooden base have a wooden trim around the outside of the base. This is available in a choice of three colours, Light Oak, Mahogany and Black Ash. This wooden trim provides a 5mm high lip around the outside which is what stops the display cover from being pushed, or sliding off. The flat display area is covered in a soft baize, which is supplied in either black, green, moss green, maroon, red or blue.
This gives a choice of eighteen different colour combinations, which should be enough to suit your displayed item and the room surroundings. These covers can be made in 3mm or 5mm thick acrylic, depending on the size of cover you are ordering. This allows them to be made larger than the other base styles which have covers made of 3mm only.
Modern Acrylic Base
These bases have two pieces of 5mm thick perspex, held together by machined stainless steel posts. The lower base has plastic feet on the bottom to raise it slightly off your surface to prevent damage to your surface or the bottom of the display base. This is larger than the size of the display cover, so the cover will sit on top of this piece. The upper part of the base is slightly smaller, so it fit inside the display cover, thereby stopping the cover from sliding off the base.
This makes the base about 20mm thick, but all sizes on this website allow for that, so if you order a display case 200mm high, you will receive a display case with a inside display height of 200mm, the external height will be nearer 230mm. This type of base is available in black, white or clear acrylic.
Low Profile Acrylic Base
This style of display case has a simple flat base made from a single piece of 5mm thick acrylic, which has a rebate machined all around, which provides a lip/rebate which the cover sits on, which will stop the cover from easily sliding off of the base. These display boxes are less aesthetically pleasing than the wooden base or the modern design but their big advantage, apart from being cheaper, is that it can be used upside down with the base used as a lid.
This is why the four rubber feet are supplied loose, so you can decide which way up to use it, then put the feet on the bottom yourself. The covers on this type of base can only be made in 3mm thick acrylic, so larger sizes of display case cannot be made with this base.
Display Cover Only- No Base
Ideal if you have already got a base, or you just don’t need a base, this will be the acrylic cover only, without any base and can be made to your sizes in 3mm or 5mm thick acrylic, which allows the display cover to be made in larger sizes. If buying for an existing base please be aware the sizes you enter for a quote are the inside sizes of the display cover, you also need to allow for manufacturing tolerances and expansion/contraction of the acrylic with temperature changes.
Get an Instant Custom Display Case Quote
Get an instant quote for a custom-made display case by selecting one of the base styles above. Enter your sizes on the product page and see the price immediately — no waiting for a response.
If the price works for you, simply add it to your cart. You can also watch our short video to quickly compare all available designs.