From time immemorial the most precious things were hidden in the objects not intended for such purposes and in the places where nobody would ever normally search for them.
Today we begin a series of DIY helpers – do it yourself. In our series we are going to help you to prepare the hidden safes for some precious items, install a tapping device or a GPS tracker in different objects of everyday use and give you a lot of tips and tricks on spying.
A safe in a book would be needed and useful for almost everyone. For a student who wants to hide the money from his roommate, a parent who would like to secure some objects against children‘s curiosity (e.g., a key to a safe box) and a lot of other persons who want to hide the valuable, important items from the curios ones. A variety of items could be hidden in such hollowed-out books as love letters, the jewellery items, passwords to credit cards or to computer accounts, pen drives etc.
What will we need?
- book (a hard cover will be the best)
- white glue (glue for paper)
- container to mix a glue with water
- knife or a technical blade (scalpel)
- small brush
- pencil or ballpen
- ruler
- ice-cream sticks
Optional:
- hot-melt adhesive
- 2 neodymium magnets (1/4 ‘ 1/3 inch)
- pieces of steel strip (we cannot use an aluminum or copper one, since the magnets won‘t attract it)
- drill
- 3/8? drill bore
Where to start?
1. First, a glue should be mixed with water in ratio 50:50 or 70:30.
2. Apply a glue onto a cover as to make this cover be glued together with the last page.
3. Now you should tilt the front cover, grasp tightly all the pages left, and apply a glue along the edges of a book.
4. The next step is to place a kind of spacer, e.g., ice-cream sticks, between the covers and the pages. We have to separate a glue from the covers because if they got glued this could make problems to separate them again.
5. In order a glue sets well we should place some heavy object on the upper part of a book. Depending on a kind of a glue used a period of binding may vary from half an hour till 3 hours.
6. After a glue got dry, open the book on the first page. Trace an outline of opening. A margin between the edges of a page and an opening should have round 4/5?
7. At this stage we start cutting out an opening inside the block of the book. It‘s important to hold a knife vertically, otherwise the opening could narrow toward the bottom cover.
8. When the pages will be cut down till the last ones, you should apply remaining glue and apply it onto the inner and upper surface of the cut-out pages.
9. We repeat the steps No 4 and 5. This time it‘s worth to wait a bit longer to let a glue sets well.
10. Ready! Our safe in a book is practically finished.
Optionally:
To secure our treasuries better it would be good that a cover won‘t open wide on any occasion (e.g., in case someone would push books off the shelves while searching for hidden items). The best is to drill the glued pages in two points (an opening should be a bit larger than a magnet). Then we pour a hot-melt adhesive into the openings and quickly place the magnets into them.
After that we fix the steel tiny strips to the cover with a hot adhesive. The magnets will attract them and secure our treasuries from falling out of a safe book accidentally.
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So, in this simple way we have just made our first secret hidden place in a book for our important papers or money! Share with us the effects work in the comment.