A warning this DIY event took us several weeks/days because of the tediousness of it, but the end result is quite perfect. I have some tips listed to help you make them more quickly, but I can't promise this is an EASY DIY. Ok so remember all that work on the table saw in Pt I? Here's what it made....
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What is that you ask? It's a template so that when he cuts the pages they come out fairly even... behold mechanical engineering at it's finest...
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Clamps are your friend, we tried this with only a 2 clamp set up but it kept slipping resulting in uneven page cuts.... So we did a hardware upgrade to 4 clamps!
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There's the man in action! We soon found the little cutesy X-acto knife from Micheal's DID NOT do the job... so we upgraded to a Utility Knife...
Here's what all the cutting looked like at the end...
This really sped the cutting job right up. Following the cutting of the millions of pages (ok probably just hundreds) we went to town with blue painters tape...
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He started by taping what would be the bottom of the ringbearer book...
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And really went to town... the blue painters tape will keep the really sticky glue off the pages you see... 
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Enter glue...
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And excessive spraying...
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The glue spraying took the longest, it was done over several days because the fumes can build up and that's bad. Make sure if you're spraying in the garage you leave the garage door OPEN. We then put weight on the book once we had checked and double checked that there was NO movement in the pages. Once we finished gluing the book together we found something else not-so-good-out...
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As we peeled back the painter's tape- we realized that the weight we had put on the book to get the pages to stick together... took off some of the paper.. :(
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Sad panda... but rectified with scrapbook paper in one of our wedding colors...
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We then hot glued a piece of ribbon in the center and tied my wedding band on it...
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Not too bad, but we learned a lot that will help us on ringbearer book #2. Did you have any DIY projects that got out of hand?
2 comments:
sooo awesome! though I can imagine what a pain it must have been to cut out all those pages..it'll definitely be a hit with your ringbearers though, I'm sure!
I sure hope so, we're calling them "treasure books" to the boys.
Really is wasn't that bad when we busted out the utility knife. It was VERY slow going with the X-Acto.
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