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Step 7Clamp and Drill
Square up your stack and clamp them tight - wrap the photos if you like, but I knew I'd be tossing the first and last one anyway, so I just pushed on.
Now, I don't have a paper drill bit - I wish I did and I'm seriously considering purchasing one. But for this I had to use a standard electric drill and a 1/4" bit. It cut through the paper just fine BUT...
As the bit goes through each piece of photo paper, it messes up the paper just a bit and causes a slight raise in the paper. A 1" thick stack of photos all of sudden becomes a 1.5" stack on the end that's drilled because all those little holes add up quick.
I ended up just sanding them down with some sand paper - not the greatest solution, but until I get a paper drill bit (not sure they even make them in 1/4" or 3/16") this is all I could do. You can see the scratch marks in one of these images. And notice how the numbers were damaged by the drilling - move the number down to where you won't drill and/or write the number on the back of the photo before they get out of order.
When done, my stack was STILL a little too thick for the 1-1/4" screw posts I purchased to connect through the stack and both sides of the leather binding. So I had to thin out the stack. To keep the animation fluid, I avoided pulling out sequential images; I ended up having to pull out about 15 of 101 images to get the thickness right - I just went through my stack and pulled out those images that were very close to the image before or after it.
Now, I don't have a paper drill bit - I wish I did and I'm seriously considering purchasing one. But for this I had to use a standard electric drill and a 1/4" bit. It cut through the paper just fine BUT...
As the bit goes through each piece of photo paper, it messes up the paper just a bit and causes a slight raise in the paper. A 1" thick stack of photos all of sudden becomes a 1.5" stack on the end that's drilled because all those little holes add up quick.
I ended up just sanding them down with some sand paper - not the greatest solution, but until I get a paper drill bit (not sure they even make them in 1/4" or 3/16") this is all I could do. You can see the scratch marks in one of these images. And notice how the numbers were damaged by the drilling - move the number down to where you won't drill and/or write the number on the back of the photo before they get out of order.
When done, my stack was STILL a little too thick for the 1-1/4" screw posts I purchased to connect through the stack and both sides of the leather binding. So I had to thin out the stack. To keep the animation fluid, I avoided pulling out sequential images; I ended up having to pull out about 15 of 101 images to get the thickness right - I just went through my stack and pulled out those images that were very close to the image before or after it.
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