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It is fun to have and use your own personalized humorous notepad, or to give them as gifts. This piece of note paper shows a line drawing of a computer. The text says, "First the wheel and now this! How does (your name) get such great ideas?" (Many years ago a similar sample came in some advertising literature. The computer in the graphic was an outmoded Univac style computer that filled an entire room. I chose to use a more contemporary image and make my own notepad papers.)
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The drawing of the computer that I used came from a clip art graphics program I have. In the graphic with this step you see a capture screen from Google Images. I searched for "computer." Look for a line drawing that will print well on your printer. The image 3rd from the left in the 2nd row would work well. Copy the image you want.
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i feel like there should be another usage out of the notepads...or this technique in general. I can't think of it now...
Anyway great instructable! I will try making this sometime. :)
...as-such, also be sure to make the cut as >perpendicular< as possible to the long edge of the page (to avoid having the long-edge skew when cutting, rotating, and abutting); make a cut far from perpendicular and you'll appreciate this-point...
BTW: BRAVO to Phil B for this rather effective EFFORT and TIME SAVING Instructable-method !!!!! What a GREAT insight !!!!!
*Here's why: Such abutting-joining is critical to getting / maintaining the overall length of the paper to be the same as the original-paper-length, because in doing so --> you'll be able to directly place the paper on (against) the standard registration-edge of any properly-adjusted photocopier <-- and reliably get a successful image-positioning result, as the 'other-end' is a correct distance from the registered end.
...if you overlap-the-edges, rather than abutting-the-edges, then the lower-end images will fall too far near the center of the page when-copying, and the lower image distance to the lower page-edge of the photocopy will not match the distance of the upper image's position to the upper page-edge...to appreciate this-point, make a page with the edges-overlapped in an exaggerated-fashion, and observe the photocopy-result, which will result in non-similar image-to-page-edge distances for the top and bottom images.
...PS-btw; if the copier registration edge is mal-adjusted such that the edge-distances for top and bottom images are not the same, just shift the page-original laterally on the copier a bit until the output-copied-page has the same edge distance for top and bottom images. (...if that process won't-work such that you feel or find that you must overlap the original on top of the copier's registration-guide, then spin the original around 180 degrees, and try this tweak-method again, and it should work...).
--Many apologies if this post was too long! Hope it proves helpful to-someone....!
Sounds like I'm yelling, and, way more technical than I actually-am, and fwiw, I just got very lucky to not overlay and tape them ...eek...! my apologies !!
Anyway, if someone needs a cure for insomnia (or a headache!!), I think my post above just might do the trick...! :)!!
Again - many-apologies... !!
A simple Google search displayed several sources for it. I used to make pads from recycled paper for the school district. 10 years later, I still have some of them and the still work great...
1) clamp pages together
2) paint edge with rubber cement
3) let dry
4) apply threads
5) more cement, not too much
6) paint a scrap with rubber cement
7) let all dry
8) apply scrap to edge
9) trim
I wonder if problems will arise because rubber cement is too polite - it comes off easily. It's the best for bonding paper face to face, not sure about edge to face.
Also, step 5 may cause a problem if the solvent in the new coat of cement dissolves the first coat, maybe combine steps 2,4 and 5, skip 3.
Thank you for your comment.