Save your cereal or fedex boxes
and cut them up for cover boards.

You can then cover these up with fabric,
with wrapping paper, cut up magazines,
photos, etc.-- all you need is a scissor &
a gluestick.

Leave a little "gap" between the
two covers and bind your pages
there. It will make it easier to
fold all the way closed.

if you want to get fancy you can
cover the inside cover with piece
of construction paper.
Steve Glazer

Valley Quest Coordinator
Vital Communities
104 Railroad Row
White River Junction, VT 05001
(802) 291 - 9100 phone
(802) 291 - 9107 fax
steve@vitalcommunities.org

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Chamberlain [mailto:ae4mk@1bigred.com]
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:15 PM
To: LbNA talk list
Subject: [LbNA] Making cheap logbooks.


FYI, I just posted a couple of photos of a cheap and easy homemade
letterbox logbooks for some of the smaller, $1 store plastic containers
(Aero 2 pack, 2.5 Cup). I take 10-15 pages of bond paper, chop theminto
2 3/4"x 8 1/2" strips. Fold them in half and staple them from the
backwith HD staples. I make 2 logbooks from 10 sheets so each logbook
has about 20 pages. There are not pretty, but functional.

http://www.1bigred.com/users/jayc/letterbox/index.htm#supplies

Have fun.

Yours in Letterboxing

YILb

Jay C.
The Jolly G-Man
Fredericksburg, VA
P53 F28 X0
http://www.1bigred.com/users/jayc/letterbox/

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I buy 89 cent bound index cards, cut them in half, clipping the excess
spiral wire and hooking back so it won't poke fingers. I think there are 50
cards in a whole book, so I get 100 log pages - already wire-bound, and they
fit great in those little Aero boxes. I paint out the "real" front cover,
and put the box's stamp on the cardboard rear cover - so LBers have a blank
page, not blue lines....

Lucy

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--- In letterbox-usa@y..., "Jay Chamberlain" wrote:
".... I make 2 logbooks from 10 sheets so each logbook has about 20
pages. They are not pretty, but functional...Jay C..."

I have put out 2 boxes using blank index cards available at any
discount or office supply store. Look for the ones unlined on both
sides. I usually can find them with prepunched holes and bind the
packet with yarn or a shoe string thru the holes. If I ever decide to
retire or retrieve the cards they could be mounted in an album or
journal. So far none of my boxes has been used to the point of
needing replacement.
...patience...
Warren Remein, the bayboxer in sunny Ohio