A bookshelf made of encyclopedias! YAY!

Step 3 Now, to explain the nuts and bolts...

My first trial run with building these proved quite annoying. Turns out the screws on all ends of the books don't do enough to help keep the covers from opening.

This is where the nuts and bolts come in!

You'll want the head of the bolt on the outside of the shelf or cube. Make sure that the drill bit you're using is around the same size of the bolt to help with screwing the bolt in... otherwise, PAGES OF DOOM. Also stress.

I know it looks odd, but otherwise moving these things would be a pain. People mentioned gluing the covers to the pages, but that seem quite tedious and would take much longer. I'm not even sure how well it would work.

The ends of the bolts are the biggest problems - due to thickness differences, they are not all the same length. Any ideas on how to cut them off? :P

Comments

[mle.mellow]

What if you just threaded a little bit of ribbon or wire through the whole and tied or twisted it to secure? Surely then it wouldn't stick out as much as nuts or bolts?

[jessyratfink]

That could work, actually. At least just to keep them closed. Threading it through might be a little annoying because the pages get so jagged, but that would be the only problem!

[reedzilla]

a dremel would take the bolt ends off nice and quick (and you could even use it to sand the end afterwards)

[jessyratfink]

Ooooh, I hadn't thought of that. They're pretty inexpensive, so I could definitely do that. And it would come in handy later on, I'm sure! Thanks!