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Make a Secret Compartment Book - Weekend Projects PDFcast

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First you'll want to mix up some glue and mix it up 50/50 with water to make it runny. Then use a brush to brush on the glue around the edges and stack it up on some books so that the book doesn't warp. I used a plastic bag to keep the glue away from the parts of the book that I wanted to keep original.

I'm not the first one to make this type of secret book. Check out hivoltage's mp3 player book! - Link

Dowload the PDF to get the full instructionss for making your own secret compartment book! - PDF Link

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Posted by: Dan on December 7, 2007 at 10:41 AM

The .pdf link above doesn't work. It is to some other project..

Posted by: Dan on December 7, 2007 at 10:42 AM

The .pdf link above doesn't work. It is to the podcast repstrap....

Posted by: jproach on December 7, 2007 at 10:47 AM

Maybe it's a secret compartment PDF.

Posted by: spinaltap on December 7, 2007 at 11:35 AM

hmm

Posted by: Ed on December 7, 2007 at 11:45 AM

The PDF link should be http://cachefly.oreilly.com/make/wp_secretbook_ponoko.pdf

Posted by: landon on December 7, 2007 at 12:50 PM

I want to make a mini-atx PC case with this idea in mind. I think i'm going to use some old world books or something. terrible waste of encyclopedias I know... I'll submit it when it's completed.

Posted by: Brock on December 7, 2007 at 1:08 PM

Ha! We did this in the cub scouts when I was 10 years old!

Posted by: bgraham111 on December 8, 2007 at 5:11 PM

I just put up an instructable for making a book press you can use for the gluing. (Although a pile of heavy books is easier to do.)

http://www.instructables.com/id/Book-Press/

Posted by: Samuel on December 9, 2007 at 6:17 PM

I made one out of my old bible:
http://asylu.ms/2007/3/check-out-my-bible/

I used mod podge instead of glue and have magnets to hold it shut, its really nice looking

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