We’ve all seen them, books with a open space in them for a hide away. How would you do this?
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You buy them.
http://www.secretstoragebooks.com/
If somebody cut holes in the books in my library I'd flog them, I swear I would.
I'll remember that if I ever find myself in your library with a knife.
In my library with a knife?? You sound rather dangerous.
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Edited 4/27/2007 9:37 pm by Heck
Or in the library with a candlestick--the butler did it.
<<If somebody cut holes in the books in my library I'd flog them, I swear I would.>>
Mis-tah Christian!
Rats, my bad southern side coming out.
I checked out that site. Every book had a cut along the bottom, so i'm guessin they bind the pages together then run them through a bandsaw.
In the theater business, it's routine to make a prop book (to populate a prop bookshelf) by gutting everything between the covers and replacing it with a suitably sized block of styrofoam, glued in place. Modified this way, a whole shelf load of books can be hot glued together and become a single object for easy handling. The books typically come from yard sales or used book stores. (Of course, prop books that are actually handled by actors don't get this treatment, for obvious reasons.)
The styrofoam treatment would be a simple way to create the kind of book the OP has in mind.
Wow, what a great thought. You could run up a shelf full of these things and hide a rifle or shotgun. Hmmm . . .
Greg
"Wow, what a great thought. You could run up a shelf full of these things and hide a rifle or shotgun. Hmmm . . ."So now you're in the Library with a shotgun? And stupid me, all I have is a piece of lead pipe. :)
BruceT
Edited 4/27/2007 10:37 pm ET by BruceT999
So now you're in the Library with a shotgun? And stupid me, all I have is a piece of lead pipe. :)
Reminds me of the line in "The Untouchables" where Sean Connery says, "Leave it to a #### to bring a knife to a gun fight." Some Italian guy attacked him with a knife, so he pulled a sawed-off shotgun out of a record player and shot him.
Edited 4/28/2007 11:53 am ET by Danno
"Wow, what a great thought. You could run up a shelf full of these things and hide a rifle or shotgun. Hmmm . . ."Better yet, glue up a bunch of them coffee table books and hide a RPG-7 or a Barrett .50... over penetration- it all depends on where you are standing.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski
I did it once with a utility knife. It wasn't neat but it worked. A few pages at a time.
Unfortunately my mom found the book, and my stash...I mean where I stashed the book....
I'd make a press of a couple of pieces of 1/2-3/4' plywood with rectangular holes in them. Flip the covers open slightly, spread away a few pages in the front and back, grasp the rest firmly, and slip the press over the center pages, without causing the pages to shift against each other.
Once the pages are pressed, spread the cover and end pages farther back and drill holes in the corners, then saw away with a very fine bladed saber saw.
I don't remember, but 45 years ago in reform school I did this to hide my candy. Nobody, but nobody ever opened a book.
It sounds like a job for the fien multimaster, .... ok back to the "you know your a tool person if thread.......;)"
northeastvt
Ahh, you planning on a drinking problem?
Plunge router. yep
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