FailedAbortion
03-22-2010, 11:02 PM
Designed to fit between a mattress and box spring.
Materials: belt holster, sheet metal, two .5" long screw and a nut of your size choice.
Tools: hammer, centre punch, solid surface you can drill a hole in(2x4 etc), drill, 3/8" drill bit, and drill bit for the size of screw you plan to use.
Start with the sheet metal.
1. cut out a rectangle sized 8.5" x 5"
2. cut another rectangle sized 1" x 5"
3. 90* Bend the 8.5" long sheet at 1.5"s from a short edge.
4. Drill a hole in your solid surface(2x4) with a 3/8" bit in the center.
5. lay the long part of the 8.5" x 5"(bent part down) sheet metal on the 2x4 over the hole.
6. use the center punch to punch holes through the sheet metal in any pattern you want so that it protrudes through the sheet metal completely.(one should be fine or as many as you would like)
7. centre punch the smaller sheet metal(1" x 5") 3/8" in from the 1" edges in the center.
8. use a vise or vise grips to clamp the small plate to the shorter bent portion of the larger plate.
9. use drill bit(size depends on screw size you picked) to drill two holes through both plates.
10. clean up all four holes and plate edges to your liking
11. add paint and let dry.
The "serrated" edge from the holes made by the centre punch are used to keep it from sliding out from between your mattress and box spring. Now it may make marks on your box spring from digging into it but who looks at that? After two years with a g23 in it and many night of rough "play" it hasn't moved. Also have some others out there that have the same result holding a p89, g22, 8" king cobra and some others that I can't remember off the top of my head.
Would take build pics but don't have time to at the moment with work and school. Sorry for the shitty ones in the pictures, made some prototypes to test about two years ago and never got around to making a final version.
Note: small plate seen in pics isn't the right size, was the only extra one I have laying around.
Materials: belt holster, sheet metal, two .5" long screw and a nut of your size choice.
Tools: hammer, centre punch, solid surface you can drill a hole in(2x4 etc), drill, 3/8" drill bit, and drill bit for the size of screw you plan to use.
Start with the sheet metal.
1. cut out a rectangle sized 8.5" x 5"
2. cut another rectangle sized 1" x 5"
3. 90* Bend the 8.5" long sheet at 1.5"s from a short edge.
4. Drill a hole in your solid surface(2x4) with a 3/8" bit in the center.
5. lay the long part of the 8.5" x 5"(bent part down) sheet metal on the 2x4 over the hole.
6. use the center punch to punch holes through the sheet metal in any pattern you want so that it protrudes through the sheet metal completely.(one should be fine or as many as you would like)
7. centre punch the smaller sheet metal(1" x 5") 3/8" in from the 1" edges in the center.
8. use a vise or vise grips to clamp the small plate to the shorter bent portion of the larger plate.
9. use drill bit(size depends on screw size you picked) to drill two holes through both plates.
10. clean up all four holes and plate edges to your liking
11. add paint and let dry.
The "serrated" edge from the holes made by the centre punch are used to keep it from sliding out from between your mattress and box spring. Now it may make marks on your box spring from digging into it but who looks at that? After two years with a g23 in it and many night of rough "play" it hasn't moved. Also have some others out there that have the same result holding a p89, g22, 8" king cobra and some others that I can't remember off the top of my head.
Would take build pics but don't have time to at the moment with work and school. Sorry for the shitty ones in the pictures, made some prototypes to test about two years ago and never got around to making a final version.
Note: small plate seen in pics isn't the right size, was the only extra one I have laying around.