Shawshank Bible - how to cut the pages

Re: Shawshank Bible - Need Help Cutting Pages

One could make a template from MDF/plywood/plexi, clamp the teh hells out of the pages to be cut and use a palm router. Just start shallow and slowly increase depth as needed or until you hit your wood backstop. The rpms should be high enough to cleanly strip away the excess material and leave a clean edge providing that the book is clamped correctly.
 
Re: Shawshank Bible - Need Help Cutting Pages

Sorry, I've never actually cut one of these yet. Won't until I have a rock hammer (and haven't found a decent one in all these years).

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ssdesigner said:
The paper would catch fire. I did think about having it water-jet cut, but water also poses an interesting challenge with thin paper.

I think it's going to go just as Kurtyboy suggested, one page at a time.

Kurtyboy: have you successfully done one of these then? Any idea what page to end the cutting on? Do you have a vector template for the hammer?

If this goes well I plan to do a very small run of the rock hammers.

-Ss
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Re: Shawshank Bible - Need Help Cutting Pages

Thanks Kurty, I appreciate all the work you've put into all things Shawshank :)

Here is my Illustrator outline of the cutout:

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Tomorrow I'll laser this out of 1/4" acrylic and see how it lines up.

Then, it's time to get busy cuttin', or get busy dyin'.

-Ss
 
Re: Shawshank Bible - Need Help Cutting Pages

For those interested, the page that you can see through the cutout is page 763. The verse visible in the top left of the cutout is Psalm 119: "With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth".

That means you have to cut through 691 pages in total. My fingers already hurt :p

-Ss
 
Re: Shawshank Bible - Need Help Cutting Pages

Flippin' perfect, Scott!

ssdesigner said:
For those interested, the page that you can see through the cutout is page 763. The verse visible in the top left of the cutout is Psalm 119: "With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth".

That means you have to cut through 691 pages in total. My fingers already hurt :p

-Ss
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Re: Shawshank Bible - Need Help Cutting Pages

Thanks KB!!

My plan is to take the laser file and draw up a rock hammer to fit inside. From there I will make a mock-up rock hammer bit and commission a lucky RPF member to make the steel/iron bits.

I'll take on a prototype handle as well with the compression rivets once I have the finished steel bit in hand.

This is a prop that NEEDS to be done.

-Ss
 
Re: Shawshank Bible - Need Help Cutting Pages

What about 3D printing the head from stainless steel?

ssdesigner said:
Thanks KB!!

My plan is to take the laser file and draw up a rock hammer to fit inside. From there I will make a mock-up rock hammer bit and commission a lucky RPF member to make the steel/iron bits.

I'll take on a prototype handle as well with the compression rivets once I have the finished steel bit in hand.

This is a prop that NEEDS to be done.

-Ss
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Re: Shawshank Bible - Need Help Cutting Pages

Contec said:
Still don't believe that the page is real... This picture of the original makes it look like the first page is glued onto something.

http://www.therpf.com/f9/shawshank-rock-hammer-33034/#post1308473
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I dunno...it has several thin wrinkles toward the top right of the page that are textbook (pun intended) thin bible page wrinkles.

I do however think that pages 71 through 762 were semi glued together. Dropping that bible without doing so could rip it to hell (pun ALSO intended) very easily.

-Ss

ps. I have no soul.
 
Re: Shawshank Bible - Need Help Cutting Pages

Another thing that those with real bibles can chew on with me...

I am certain that the "Presented to: / From:" page at the beginning of the bible was removed. Otherwise you would definitely see it through the page Andy signs. Looks to have been poorly ripped out when looking at this pic:

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-Ss
 
Re: Shawshank Bible - Need Help Cutting Pages

ssdesigner said:
I dunno...it has several thin wrinkles toward the top right of the page that are textbook (pun intended) thin bible page wrinkles.

I do however think that pages 71 through 762 were semi glued together. Dropping that bible without doing so could rip it to hell (pun ALSO intended) very easily.

-Ss

ps. I have no soul.
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It's just a book..
 
This was a bit nerve-wracking, but I have my first 4 pages successfully cut:

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The trick to this is go SLOW, and let the blade to ALL the work. The moment you apply any pressure these very thin pages will shift and tear.




-Ss
 
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