Ringbearer Books Pt I

So, by now you know we've decided to go with Ringbearer books, because it's cute and damn near indestructible! Recently I raided my local Savers store (similar to Goodwill) and came up with a treasure trove of vintagey books to play with. The first ones that caught my eye were these beauties, clearly from the same person's library.

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Originally I had planned on using these, but upon opening up An Intimate Guide for Women I just couldn't part with this beauty...

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Who wouldn't want an outdated book with a chapter entitled "Finding a Mate" that also tells you that "for whatever the reason, more than half of [female] college graduates who live in big cities never marry." Oh yah, it went there....

Anyway moving on, the Ring-bearer books right! Ok well clearly I couldn't use that book as a ring-bearer book, so  I scoped the rest of the vintage book section and found not one... but 10 of these from the years of 1972-1982.

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Not only is the texture amazing, and the picture of the catci appropriate, they continued that craftsmanship onto the sides! How wonderful! They're exactly what we wanted in our book look. So moving on to the project...the Offbeat Bride recommends using an X-acto knife. Ha! My fiancé is first and foremost a mechanical engineer... so he went out to the table saw in our garage...

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And what he made you will have to wait and see!! But it put those X-acto knifed books to SHAME! Well I am obligated to say that as his fiancé, but it is always a fun experiment when the table saw is fired up!  
{Any and all audiologists reading this will note that he is wearing "skull screws" which have an NRR rating of 30dB...because hearing protection is important. If anyone would like to hear my long speil on hearing loss prevention please contact me. }

Are you adding more power (insert Tim the Tool Man grunt here) to what started out as a simple DIY? How is your fiancé pulling his weight in the DIY arena?