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Hide your small valuables away in plain sight, with this DIY Phonebook Safe
I am sure you throw away or recycle your old phone book every year or so. I came across a 2004 edition just today, and decided to put it to another use. With a few hours time, some wax paper, wood glue, a jig saw, drill, and a few bricks you can too.
Start by
taking two sheets of wax paper that are a few inches longer than the
phone book. You will insert one sheet of paper about 20 pages from the
front of the book, and the other 20 pages from the rear of the book.
Slide the wax paper sheets so they are all the way back against the
binding and extending around the other three edges of the book. Now
close the book and position the book on the edge of a surface so that
you can paint the wood glue onto the book, and
where the excess glue wont damage anything. I used my trusty outdoor
picnic table, as seen here before.
With the book positioned on the edge of the table and a large cinder block compressing the book, I paint the wood glue between the areas that are isolated by the wax paper, along all three unbound edges of the book. Apply the glue so that it covers all of the edges but not so much that it is dripping. Now go fix some coffee, and enjoy a few cups and come back an hour later. After an hour the glue has had time to dry and you can remove the cinderblock and extract the wax paper sheets. Use an box cutter type knife or razor blade to trim the edges where the wax paper might be sticking. With this done you will have a center portion of the book that is now almost board like, with some loose pages before and after it. As you can see, Sally the DIY cat is on the job too.
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