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Secret Hiding Place

Project by miles125 posted 377 days ago 1612 views 1 time favorited 14 comments Add to Favorites Watch

I’ve always been intrigued by secret hiding places. I’m so bad in fact, that i’m officially leaving it up to my fellow lumberjocks to alert my relatives not to give anything to Goodwill without close inspection should i meet an untimely demise.

I started out trying to cut this books pages with my razor knife. Well…....That was ridiculously and painstakingly slow. So i ended up getting out my old trusty Bosch jigsaw. Even THAT was a chore! I had no idea how cutting a books pages would rival the task of cutting 8/4 Rock Maple. Maple is probably easier since it doesnt tend to wiggle around while gnawing the teeth off the blade.

The box is a fairly simple Spanish Cedar one. I used 3 penny finish nails for the hinges. I figured no bottom to the box would give me more depth. So the bottom edges of the box are glued straight to the books rear cover.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""


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Thos. Angle

4013 posts in 862 days


posted 376 days ago

Neat! Looks just the size for $100 bills. Now if the economy would just get to the place where a fellow had one to hide…............... and your wife doesn’t donate it to Good Will.

-- Thos. Angle

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Baxter5

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posted 376 days ago

Hello Miles

Nice job on the cut out I’m sure it was not easy. I wonder how many books are out there about making furniture with “false” fronts and whatnots. Maybe like the desk in national treasure. I often thought that would be a niche market and fun to make. Just hiding money or perparing for a good bame of clue???

Baxter

-- J. Jacobson, Rockford Illinois,

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MsDebbieP

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posted 376 days ago

I have always liked this idea but thought cutting the pages would be difficult.
Yah… looks difficult

You need a list of all your hiding places!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Jimthecarver

429 posts in 685 days


posted 376 days ago

I made a hiding spot like that once….to make it easier to cut and keep uniform I put a piece of wax paper about 20 pages into the book, leaving about an inch around the edges of the page.
And then used white glue thinned down just a little bit on the edges after clamping the book between two pieces of wood to keep the pages from wrinkling. After a few hours unclamped the book and it looked perfect, it sat next to my arm chair.
They make great hiding spots!
Yours should do the trick, nice job.

-- Can't never could do anything, to try is to advance.

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CharlieM1958

7696 posts in 1118 days


posted 376 days ago

I hope you were smart enough to throw us off the track by showing a photo of a book that is not the actual one with the hiding place inside. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

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miles125

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posted 376 days ago

Thos you got that right sir. Aint much to put in it nowadays.

I was actually thinking about giving this to a friend in Michigan I’m flying up to visit for Thanksgiving. Any bets on whether this thing going through xray will get me pulled aside and wanded? Ummmm…I think it pretty much guarantees it. Maybe i should put some mysterious looking microfilm in it to really get em going. Nahhhh. I’d rather not spend the night at the Atlanta airport.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

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miles125

1443 posts in 906 days


posted 376 days ago

Charlie you are more coniving than i suspected. Wish i’d thought of that first!

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

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unknownwoodworker

218 posts in 603 days


posted 376 days ago

It’s not a secret any more.

-- ??? My mistakes heat the house. It's very warm in here. ???

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brianinpa

1365 posts in 623 days


posted 376 days ago

Very neat idea.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

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mtnwild

2030 posts in 427 days


posted 376 days ago

I’ve seen it done like jimthecarver said, you then methodically cut the pages out with a straight edge and a razor. Had that on my to do list a long time. Yours looks great.

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

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johan

67 posts in 410 days


posted 376 days ago

Just some advice if you got a fretsaw.Cut two pieces of 3mm ply the size of the pages,fold the top and bottom page away and use maskingtape to hold the pages between the ply.Drill a hole through and cut with the saw like you do stack or multilayer cutting.

-- Johan, South Africa, www.wildwoodboxes.co.za

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Grumpy

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posted 376 days ago

Nice one Miles. What was your address again, seem to have forgotten?. LOL

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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Dusty56

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posted 376 days ago

Which came first , the box or the page cutting ? LOL

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

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jockmike2

7368 posts in 1146 days


posted 375 days ago

Back in my old drinking days, I should say, the hunting season after I sobered up in 86, I was cleaning my shotgun the night before the season opener, which was tradition at my house, well I shoved a ramrod down the barrel of my shotgun with a brush and out popped three $100.00 dollar bills. I don’t think I need any hiding places for valuables or at least I hadn’t better, so my wife says.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

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