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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: alfsauve on December 18, 2009, 11:29:57 AM
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This topic came up a while back and I hadn't had chance to respond. In the meantime I found some pre-made books that can be used to hide valuables at Michaels arts and craft stores.
Here's a picture of my two books. Death Beam, in the center is a book I picked up used for 50cent and carved out the inside. (I like the title.) I hollowed it out so that a PPK/s would fit inside. The book to the right of Death Beam is the fake book I bought at Michaels for only a couple of bucks. They sell it to use to hold Christmas presents.
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/alfsauve/Firearms/Books01.jpg)
Here's how they look removed from the shelf
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/alfsauve/Firearms/book02.jpg)
And here's what's inside. The XD is a little snug, but I just had it handy and put it inside for illustration purposes.
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/alfsauve/Firearms/book03.jpg)
I know my "carving" is a little crude, but it was a proof of concept and I never went back to clean it up. I used it for a couple of years, but now I just carry my PPK/s rather than keep it on the shelf. Given some time, if anyone's interested, I've got another book that I intend on carving, I'll post a how-to with pictures, later.
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Alf, "Death beam" is better than the other one which I picked out just based on the thread title and the lack of one on the book spine.
Quite the interesting book shelf, is "Conflict of Visions" "readable" or dry and "scholarly" ?
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I could tell that one with the XD had something in it.... it look too out of place.
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You know a great book for this would be "The Road"! It's not all that big, but I can't think of a better use for the turd if you haven't thrown your copy away after suffering through it. ;)
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You know a great book for this would be "The Road"! It's not all that big, but I can't think of a better use for the turd if you haven't thrown your copy away after suffering through it. ;)
I would add "Trail Safe" to that list also.......JK, Bane ;D
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Hello to all;
This topic reminds me of how my Mom and us "kid's" went through my Dad's room after he died to clean up since he was somewhat of a pack rat. I came upon a 1972 Rand/McNally road book and just for S- - -'s and Giggles I thought I'd see how the local/state roads had changed in the 25 years since. I opened the book to the state of PA and $150. was there.
Naturally, what had been thrown into the trash bag previously had been dumped out and in the end a total of $900. was found in those off the wall/old dust catchers that we thought were trash. My Mom made out that day!
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Alf
Props for having the Hayek and "Uncle Milton". Please don'r carve them up to hold guns. They're more valuable SD tools than that LCP.
FQ13
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Naturally, what had been thrown into the trash bag previously had been dumped out and in the end a total of $900. was found in those off the wall/old dust catchers that we thought were trash. My Mom made out that day!
When my aged mother finally decided to make the change and move in with one of the kids, my brother was clearing out her condo/apartment. He found $8,000.00 in twenties in a hatbox in an unlocked storage closet OUTSIDE her front hallway. Anyone in the complex could have made off with it and she had no idea she'd left it there.
Check your folks stuff, expecially if they're getting a little drifty.
Oh, Yea.....Great idea Alf!
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When my mom passed I found a bunch of jewelery including diamond rings wrapped up in tin foil in the freezer.
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When my mom passed I found a bunch of jewelery including diamond rings wrapped up in tin foil in the freezer.
My great aunt (child of the Deppression) had a couple of bleach bottles filled with silver quarters and $100 bills behind the paper linings in her dresser drawers, in the pages of a Bible and photo albums and inside vases and the like. It was like a damn archelogical dig going through that place. This was clearly a woman ahead of her time, as she did not trust banks.
FQ13
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Quite the interesting book shelf, is "Conflict of Visions" "readable" or dry and "scholarly" ?
Conflict is sort of in-between. The ideas presented are worth the effort though. It explains a lot about two competing visions of the world, "constrained" and "unconstrained". I always called it the Jonathan Edwards verses Ann Landers visions. It could also be called the collectivism verses individualism, but it's more than that. Those ideas rise from the roots that Thomas talks about.
I read this about three or four years ago, I may re-read it this holiday.
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I would add "Trail Safe" to that list also.......JK, Bane ;D
Yeah, everyone knows Trail Safe is too thin to hold anything other than a mouse gun - and barely at that!!!!! ;D
When my mom passed I found a bunch of jewelery including diamond rings wrapped up in tin foil in the freezer.
Hey, there was this one guy in Louisiana that had $100,000 in his freezer. Of course he wasn't dead whent he FBI found it, right Rep. Jefferson? ? ?
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I could tell that one with the XD had something in it.... it look too out of place.
On that shelf, yes the Michaels "box" looks out of place. In the bookcase with my wifes novels, it fits in much better. It is still a good buy for only a couple of dollars.....especially during Christmas with all the sales. And if you don't want to take the time and effort to make your own, it's sturdy alternative.
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On that shelf, yes the Michaels "box" looks out of place. In the bookcase with my wifes novels, it fits in much better. It is still a good buy for only a couple of dollars.....especially during Christmas with all the sales. And if you don't want to take the time and effort to make your own, it's sturdy alternative.
It doesnt pass the smell test as is, but all you need to do is put a dust jacket on it from like a Tom Clancy book, and you're good to go.
FQ13
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Props for having the Hayek and "Uncle Milton". Please don'r carve them up to hold guns. They're more valuable SD tools than that LCP.
FQ13
Now, now FQ. An LCP or LCR would fit nicely in one of those big hard-back novels. I only carve up cheap books I find at garage sales. AND dust jacket is a great idea for the Michaels "book".
Sowell and Williams dominate my economic reading material.
And speaking of books, I came across a biography on the Ringling Circus bandmaster, Merle Evans, in my collection last week. It was autographed by Evans to Stuart Thayer. Thayer was a preeminent circus historian, who passed away this summer. I'm giving the book to his family to add to Thayer's historical collection.
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What is old is new again. God Bless all of our relatives that have since passed and left us a "surprise" to be found later.
I found $250.00 in 50 dollar bills in my Grandfather's tool box. With a 1955 Zippo lighter, (which still works). under the the wrench template in the second drawer down.
Found my Great Grandmother's engagement ring in a "secret" compartment inside her jewelry box that my mother and sister had for years. (The hinges and inlays were popping out in a couple of spots in the mahogany box, and I heard something rattle when I was shuffling it around. ).
It was their ingenuity, resourcefulness, to think of the "big" picture. I may have a literal "treasure map" to get to my crap when I'm gone,..
Books at yard sales are a great resource to hide, cash, whatever,.....
Just takes patience. (Which Alf, has more than I) ;)