Indestructible Binder

Step 8: Now your finished!

Booyah! Now people will be asking you to make them a metal binder too. It turns out that a lot of my friends have problems with their binders breaking.
I hope this binder holds together. So far, so good.

Thanks for viewing my Instructable! Please vote for me, I would love to have at least one graphic t-shirt in my poor wardrobe :D


P.S. I forgot to mention that one of the rivets needs to be ground down a little. Make sure it is out of the way of the middle ring.

Comments

[thepiercedweirdo]

I dig it.

[cowscankill]

Thanks!

[dscotthep]

Very cool... wish I'd thought of it 20 years ago!!

One suggestion: next time attach your leather hinges w/ an even number of rivets (per row), that way you don't have one in the center interfering with the middle ring!

[cowscankill]

Yes, that would be the ideal design, but it doesn't affect it too badly now.

[nanosec12]

Awesome work, and great way to show off your work with all those pictures!!!

5 of 5 stars, can't wait to see what you come up with next.

Nanosec

[mrmerino]

you know what'd be awesome? if you were walking to school, and you were caught up in a gang shooting, and some one went to shoot you, but your badass steampunk binder stopped the bullet and saved your life

[cowscankill]

Maybe not aluminum, but perhaps steel? ;) Something I actually was thinking about... 4 people were murdered in the past week by my school. At least I have a bludgeoning self defense weapon...

[edfel01]

wow good school

[king kolton9]

how aout titanium its stronger way stronger or aluminum there both way stronger (i dont know what people understant a sheet of titanium thats about as thick as a binder is stronger then steel in that exact size aluminim is stronget then them both but is heavier (im 11 if anything is wrong tell me

[king kolton9]

understand

[mrmerino]

hmm... a steel binder... ill get to work ;)

[Vick Jr]

Just go all out and make it out of Adamantium.

Etched Acrylic might look cool too. Maybe put some LEDs in lol.

Anyway, I wish I had a rivet gun. : (

[MadBricoleur]

kevlar shell, layered with titanium, a soft core to absorb impact, more titanium, then a layer of kevlar. all three panels. now THAT would be indestructable. then again, simply kevlar would work too.

[sabbysayshi]

geeze i never knew school work had better protection than the president.

[MadBricoleur]

LOL then again, the president probably has a top secret plane with triple layers of all the above materials, or a science agency that is working on that. :)

[cowscankill]

You don't have to use rivets, you could use bolts. But I think rivets may be cheaper...

[LuciferRex]

Wow, that is one extreme binder