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Deaf Smith · July 18, 2008, 07:28 PM

Gaimen,

How about puting a gun IN the Mantle?

Lots of fireplace mantle's slip off their studs. Hollow out a place in it for a loaded 1911!

Or just cut a square piece out of the mantle top, deep enough for your 1911, and then put an edge (or shoulder) on the rim of the square you cut out. Make a like piece of wood to fit over (a top, or lid) and rest on that edge you made. Gun is inside. A vase, with a cloth underneith, is over the 1911s resting place!

What you don't want is a box ON the mantle. That's so obvious any two bit thief will look inside in search of valuables.

July 18, 2008, 07:28 PM	#26
Deaf Smith Senior Member Join Date: October 31, 2000 Location: Texican! Posts: 4,453	Gaimen, How about puting a gun IN the Mantle? Lots of fireplace mantle's slip off their studs. Hollow out a place in it for a loaded 1911! Or just cut a square piece out of the mantle top, deep enough for your 1911, and then put an edge (or shoulder) on the rim of the square you cut out. Make a like piece of wood to fit over (a top, or lid) and rest on that edge you made. Gun is inside. A vase, with a cloth underneith, is over the 1911s resting place! What you don't want is a box ON the mantle. That's so obvious any two bit thief will look inside in search of valuables. __________________ “To you who call yourselves ‘men of peace,’ I say, you are not safe without men of action by your side” Thucydides