For a more detailed article with stepbystep instructions and more pictures, check out the article how to make a hollow book on wonderhowto. A couple years ago i made a book safe which had a locked secret compartment. Make a book safe with a secret compartment that needs. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. The first places thieves look for valuables are right in your dresser, desk, drawers, and any jewelry cases you may have lying around. A burglar certainly isnt going to stop and read a novel while hes robbing you. This is an excellent spot for someone to hide things, especially if they have a large book collection. Well tell you all about the newest books and other upcoming goodies. Product title winbest dual book hidden safe lock box with key lock. You can also find antiquestyle covers with calligraphy and yellowed pages. Secret storage books hollow books and book safes from real.
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Product title spy bolt diversion safe hidden contents hollow secur. Book safes are easy for their owners to recognise, but they do not stand out to a thief or other intruder. This here book is cut to perfectly hold a mid sized glock like a 23 or a 19 etc theres a nifty slot for a backup mag as well. Actually, i still have the first one that i made i keep some old letters in it. Small items such as a photograph or a note can be hidden in between the pages of the book.
To carve the hole out of the inside of the book, youll want to start by painting all the pages with glue to hold them together. Feb 28, 2016 all you have to do is leave a comment on this video telling me the strangest thing you would put in a diy stash book. Secret storage books, aka hollow books, book safes, stash boxes, hollowed out books or book boxes, are created by hand from real books in our studio off the west coast of canada. Hollowedout books have been used to smuggle items into prisons, such as tools to aid a prison escape or contraband such as drugs or weapons. Mini dictionary diversion book safe with key lock metal. Each one is precision handcrafted from a real book, bound with archival bookbinding glue and finished off with powerful neodymium magnets to close with a snap. For the latest free hollow book news check out our mini blog on the books page. Secret storage books hollow books and book safes from. To learn more about how ebonical made his, check out his website, which also includes a video showcasing his kindle book cover in action. Hollow out definition of hollow out by merriamwebster. Press the book firmly in your hand to keep the pages together as you glue them. If this is for yourself, choose a book that will fit in on your shelf. Initially, i had planned to go with a can safe, but i would undoubtedly throw it out together with the hope diamond lol.
After 15 years in business, tens of thousands of book safes have been shipped worldwide. If youve got a shelf full of new mystery paperbacks, a large vintage medical textbook will look suspicious and out of place. Streetwise fake large hardbound diversion book gun safe. Brush the glue on the outside of the pages all around the book.
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A hollowed out hardback book can turn into a safe that you can keep on the bookshelf in plain sight. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. Hollow out definition is to remove the inside of something. Basic hollow book safe no lock the gift by james patterson.
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