My sister gave me some old books so I could conceal
our wireless router that currently sits naked on the shelf.
Here's the ugly thing
It's not terribly ugly... but I'd rather not look at it
First I set the router on top of the cover page
& traced it's outline so I knew how much of the book to hollow out.
The more I cut the harder it was to get
the blade all the way to the corner edges for a clean cut.
Work in progress ;)
About half way through the blade started to get dull & ripping the pages.
I wanted to make fewer cuts so I came up with a new system.
This time I used the utility knife only for the interior cut near the spine of the book.
*Tip* Run the knife through the same cut a few times to cut more pages at one time.
Then I took a scissor and made the other two cuts along the edges of the book.
*Tip* Flip through the pages to find how deep the "spine" cut went, take that whole section and do the edge cuts with the scissors. That way you can pull out that whole section and then go on to do the next one. ALSO if you find the cut edges are getting in the way of cutting the next series of pages, flip a few full pages over the cut flaps and come back to that section later.
All hollowed out!
Inside it goes!
Now it just looks like a lovely little pile of books :)
Before & After shot
Before & After Close-up
UPDATE*
To make sure the router had enough ventilation I hollowed out a second book,
including the covers between them.
Plenty of airflow now
