Hollow out book dremel tool

At this point, use a normal drill bit to drill a shallow hole into the wood. Keep guide holes as shallow as possible. With softer or unfinished woods, you may not need a guide hole.

However, these take little time to drill and will decrease the chances of chipping and cracking. Select the bit to make your hollow. Spade bits come in different sizes, allowing you a pretty wide range for your hollow. Flat bottomed, precise hollows can be made with a Forstner bit.

Larger hollows will be made most easily with a hole saw. Choose your bit according to your project's needs. Use a woodworking bit to drill the hollow. Switch out your normal drill bit for the one you chose to make your hollow. Position the bit at the guide hole so the bit forms an L-shape with the wood. Apply moderate pressure to the drill and press its trigger to bore a circular hole in the wood.

Wear safety googles when using your drill, and consider using a breathing mask if you have sensitive lungs. Keep a careful eye on the depth of the bit as you drill.

To make it easier to determine depth, hold the drill to the side of the wood at your chosen depth. Use a piece of tape to mark the bit. When the tape reaches the wood, you've reached the right depth. Drill multiple holes for quicker chiseling.

When hollowing out large areas, use a normal drill bit to drill several holes through the area you'll be hollowing. These holes will make chiseling much easier and more precise, but it can be difficult to maintain even depth with this method. This is another time where you can use a piece of tape to improve depth consistency; mark the desired depth of your hollow on your drill bit with the tape.

Method 3. Make a width guide. Woodworking routers use a width guide to control the area being hollowed out. Some routers may come with adjustable attachments for setting the dimensions for the hollow, but if yours doesn't, make your own by sawing the shape of your hollow into a piece of plywood. Fasten the guide to the wood you'll be hollowing. To prevent the wood and guide from dangerously coming loose, use several clamps to firmly hold the two pieces together.

If your guide moves even a little bit, the placement of your hollow will be thrown off. Select a bit and set its depth. Spiral bits tend to make the cleanest cuts, but depending on the kind of hollow you're making, a different shaped bit might be more suitable. Set the depth of the bit to the depth of your hollow and you're ready to use the router.

Avoid setting the depth of your bit so it's longer than the thickness of the wood. Doing so could result in you cutting all the way through to the other side. Hollow out the wood with the router. Use the handles and trigger on the router to lower the bit into the wood until it reaches its max depth. Reverse this process to remove the bit, then reposition the wood and lower the bit to repeat the process again.

Continue in this fashion until the hollow is done. Because of this, you should always wear safety glasses when operating your router. Different brands of router may use a different procedure for operation. Always follow the router's direction for the best and safest results. Digital manuals can usually be found online. With larger hollows, sometimes it's quicker to make several holes around the perimeter and through the center with a router and then chisel out large chunks.

Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Be sure to keep a tight grip on the car. The router bit's running much slower than it's designed for and creates a lot of chattering that can shake the car out of your hand.

Once most the car's body has been drilled out, use needle nosed pliers to break off sections of standing wood. This is quicker than trying to drill everything out. Be careful to only remove wood that breaks away easily. Large thick sections may pull so much would away with them that the surface of the car is breached. If this happens, fill it in from the inside with epoxy putty after the hollowing process is complete and sand it smooth. Once the car's hollowed out as much as possible using these techniques, use a Dremel tool with a grit sanding cylinder to smooth the bottom of your excavation and reduce the side thickness.

I prefer grit over 80 grit because it gives more control. The entire process takes between 30 minutes to one hour depending on how much work is put into making the shell as thin as possible. In the example above, the body's weigh was reduced from 4. Yes, the perfect idea. Since my personal library contains mysteries, science fiction and religious books, I picked up a big, thick, hard bound science fiction book for my project.

So this is how you can create a hollow book for hidden storage of special things. Supplies: A hard bound book your choice of size Craft knife with extra blades Metal ruler Pencil Paintbrush White glue I used Mod Podge Tape T-shirt shopping bags you could use plastic wrap, or plastic bags.

To start, determine how much of the book you want to seal. Leave of the first pages free. Repeat with the back page. Hold all of the rest of the pages together and using the paint brush spread the white glue along the three sides of the edges that are usually free.

When dry this will make these pages will be a solid unit. Once the glue is dry, open the book to the solid area, I wanted the hole in the book to fit the case my pearls reside in, so I traced all the way around that case.

You can just mark a rectangle that is 1 inch from the 4 edges of the book. Next, using the metal ruler and the craft knife, run the sharp tip of the knife along the ruler edge, following the lines. The hardest part of this is getting the corners nice and clean. You will cut only cut pages at a time. When you cutting a page book this means that this is time consuming project.

Go ahead, and pause for a drink, or something to eat. Do it while you are watching your favorite TV show or listening to your favorite music. Do not cut clear thru to the bottom. You need a solid surface for the bottom. Take a deep breath. You are done with that part. I chose to glue the inside edges of my hollow book, therefore I chose to reuse the t-shirt bags, let it dry again.