Andrew R Stewart 

I might suggest dulling down the seat stay caps. Two little knives pointing toward one's jewels...

I've only done something like this once. One of my early frames suffered a crack right below the seat lug on the sides of the seat tube. (Too many heating cycles at too high a temp will do that) before the frame was painted. As it had a rather short top tube for the tall size it was I cut off the top tube and removed the seat stays. A new top tube located a few cms below the first one and the stays were shortened at the bottom ends. Painted and sold it off after sitting around the shop for a couple of years. I forget how I dealt with the fork, likely replaced the steerer with a shorter one. Andy