Overall the pages are much better in this one – especially top and bottom – but it could use a little more cleaning up If the pages in your book are old, they may be weaker and more prone to ripping The sharper the blade, the easier it cuts through without ripping. Every few pages that get cut, take them out and move them out of the way.Watch out for corners, I had a little trouble with them.Be firm, but don’t shove the knife towards the page.I think having a larger book, or not cutting with the book completely open would solve this) I later changed my cutting strategy and this helped a lot, but I just never went back and cleaned it up ( Side note: with my book being so small, as I turned pages and got further along the pages were slowly shifting. In the image, you can see that my interior edge is all ripped and not a clean line at all. Also knives are sharp and stuff so if your Dex score isn’t very high then be sure to use caution. Nice clean cuts are key in having ‘smooth’ walls of your hidey hole as I learned the hard way. Place your guide on top of your page and begin to cut around the inside edges of your guide. I skipped ahead in the book about ~50 pages before I started actually cutting, but this is totally up to personal preference and will probably depend on the overall size and length of the book you use. With that all said and done, it’s finally time to begin cutting the pages. Also, you’ll probably want to use the straight edge to guide your cutting for this part since this shape will get traced over and over and over and over and over again. I went about an inch in from each of the edges, marked these lines, and cut it out so that the piece of cardboard looked like a picture frame. The next step is to decide how large of a hidey-hole you want. I took my sharpie and marked the location of the top and bottom of the page, and then connected these two lines with my straight edge.
The goal here is to cut a piece of cardboard that is the same exact size as one of the pages in the book. Now take your piece of cardboard and line it up with the interior pages of your book. It will help if the cardboard is not corrugated. The more durable the cardboard the better, since you’ll be running a blade along the edge over and over again. The tools and ingredients for Part 2: Glue Part 1: Cutīefore we start hacking up the pages and making an absolute mess of the book, we’ll be creating the cutting guide out of some heavy duty cardboard. This is to keep the book pressed together while the glue dries. Cling wrap is what I used, but you just need something that can protect the covers from getting glue on them This is technically optional, but I highly highly recommend it. Honestly if you don’t have a paint brush, you could just put some of the gooey mixture onto a paper towel and use that to coat the pages. Oh, you’ll also want something to mix it in. For reference, it ended up being a milky-looking liquid that was easily applicable with the paint brush. I mostly eyeballed it and everything turned out fine. I went with Elmer’s glue and water in a roughly 80/20 ratio. The tools and ingredients for Part 1: Cut For Part 2: Glue Again, this is probably optional but it’s what I did. Mostly for drawing straight lines to create the cutting guide. This isn’t necessary, but I think it helped me speed up the process and cut the same shape(ish) on every page. Bring some extra replacement blades since you want to make clean cuts and ensure the pages don’t rip. I used a box cutter type of knife, but you could use an x-acto or any other similar blade. The closer it looks to a wizard’s spellbook the better. You might already have one laying around, or they can be found at random thrift and antique stores. Required Ingredients + Tools For Part 1: Cut Next, you create a mixture of glue and water and seal the edges of the book closed and let it sit overnight with some heavy pressure applied. This part can take quite a while, so be sure to take your time in order to get nice clean lines. It can be split up into two parts: cutting the pages out, and gluing the pages together.Įssentially you take a book and repeatedly cut out the middle of the pages with a utility knife to form a cavity.
The entire process is honestly way simpler than I originally thought. The completed DnD dice box Making a DnD Dice Box: Summary
It may not be the most refined method, but it will definitely get the job done. Keeping dice hidden away inside an ancient looking tome seemed like a pretty good solution, so I did some research and tried my darndest to create a DnD dice box from an old book. OR, and stick with me here, you could DIY that shit AND have fun at the same. Sure, you could throw some ca$h around and get a hoity-toity wooden DnD dice box. But eventually you’ll need somewhere equally awesome to store your dice.
Like, finding a crisp hundred-dollar bill randomly in your coat awesome.
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