Gun storage and maintenance work bench

Claim 1

A work bench for securely receiving one or more hand-held long firearms, such as shotguns or rifles, said work bench adapted to stably secure said firearms in any or a plurality of user-selected positions for facilitating routine maintenance, repair, or adjustments, said work bench comprising: a generally rectangular wooden base adapted to be disposed upon a work table or similar support, said base comprising: a pair of opposing ends; an upper surface; a pair of spaced apart side accommodating rectangular mounting channels disposed near said opposing ends on said upper surface of said base; a pair of wooden, spaced apart, vertical sides, each of said sides comprising: a channel engaging bottom adapted to be fitted to one of the aforementioned pair of channels disposed on said base; a top having an array of depressed grooves varying in depth, width, and curvature, each of said grooves adapted to compressively receive at least one compliant strip of leather and at least a portion of a firearm so that said firearm may be disposed between and upon said sides temporarily firmly held within corresponding aligned grooves defined therewithin by compression against said leather strip(s) without damaging or marring of the surface, finish, or integrity of said firearm; said grooved side members being aligned such that at least one large groove of one side will be oriented toward at least one smaller groove of the opposite side so as to cooperatively receive the various portions of a firearm such as the barrel, the butt, or the stock; and, a permanent leather strip being affixed across the top of each side within the grooves, the ends of said permanent strip of leather being anchored within terminal slits defined on each opposite upper edges of said sides.