Hide-A-Book with a twist...

A good friend of mine has just graduated from Medical School, and since I could not be there for the graduation (whole Atlantic Ocean thing in the way), I thought I would whip something up as a present. There is nothing extremely new in this instructable, as there are many variations on this website.

I decided to make a book to use as a display case for his new office (after 5 years of residency-sucker)

I went for the medical theme on this one using an old medical dictionary (not too old, as that would be a sin to destroy a book with history) and filled it with some unique medical supplies that would spark conversation. Enjoy, and please post comments, suggestions, pros and cons. Cheers.

Step 1 Materials

The Materials for this project are simple. The only challenge is finding the appropriate book and items you want to display that incorporate your theme.

-Book (Hard backs are best, and avoid books with glossy pages)
-Items to display (For mine I have chosen a pre 1920's glass syringe and an old apothecaries medication bottle.

-PVA glue and water
-Utility knife
-Small brush
-Scissors
-Felt
-Cling wrap
-Engraved plate
-Some type of weights
-Time and patience

Comments

[lgm1]

To ensure that your corners don't overshoot, you could try drilling small pilot holes at the corners with a very very sharp drill bit... Your craft knife will have an easier time stopping at the corners...

[Numb-Nuts]

Couldn't you use glue to make the entire book solid(minus a few pages on each side for realism) and then just use a dremel to carve out the insides?

[Fishpail]

My thoughts exactly, but if only the world were that simple, I myself did this (minus the med themed contents; so the book)  and I do not own a dremel, I found some suspiciously similar but very large looking ones (dad owns an autoshop) but something told me that I shouldn't touch this :P

A dremel would make things a lot easier and simpler, but there's something about manual labor that shows you care about the other person.

[carissaanne]

great idea!!!

[greenvictoria]

You had a great idea and executed it very well.

[darus67]

I'd be inclined to use a copy of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution to build this, given the nature of the contents.

[moesboy]

where did you get the medical stuff??

[scooter76]

With a little patience, I found them on ebay. Auction or fle markets might work as well.

[AznPanda]

Ahh the cutting takes forever trust me i know... ive done something like that i quit :P

[drummonkey92]

realy nice project, sentiment, and gift idea!!