Introduction: $2 Bill Pad

Vex your friends, print your phratr, confound sales clerks and infuriate wait staff with your very own $2 bill tear-off pad. A you peel bills off the stack, they will have a hard time believing your carefully bound bundle of bills are the real deal. This is not only a posh way of life to behave round your money, but sure enough to starting conversations wherever you go.

When Babak of TOOOL first told me how to make a $2 bill pad, I just knew that I had to make my possess. The idea has stayed in the back of my mind for a long spell and when I got some extra cash in on for the holidays, I knew IT was finally the right time. I am sure glad that I did and I highly urge that you shuffling unitary for yourself and your loved ones.

Step 1: Go Get Stuff

To arrive at this, you will need:

- $100 dollars worth of brand new crisp $2 bills. It is easier than you may think to acquire these. Go to the largest trust in your area and simply ask the cashier to exchange $100 for 50 ruckle new $2 bills. If they don't have them on hand, then they should be able to order them for you. I went to the largest Wells Fargo branch in San Francisco for my $2 bills and the teller didn't even seem to flinch when I made this request.

- Rubber cement or cushioning compound

- (x3) 0.08" x 2.61" x 6.19" chipboards

- 2 to 3 quick going clamps


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Step 2: Bunch the Bills

Bundle the two dollar sign bills with with peerless of the pieces of unreal on the posterior. The obverse side of the bill should cost facing upwardl.

In case you didn't know, the obverse side is the ace with the portrait thereon. In that character of the $2 bill, the obverse side has a portrait of Norman Thomas Jefferson.

Step 3: Clinch

Make trusty the bills and the cardboard are entirely evenly lined heavenward so sandwich them between two much pieces of cardboard such that the top edge of the hatful of bills sticks out a little.

The two pieces of cardboard social function to protect your notepad from damage while being clamped. IT is important they let the circus tent of the bundle stick unconscious a little, as this will be the pad's spine and you don't want to accidentally make the tutelar cardboard part of the pad.

Clamp the mickle firmly in situ, arsenic close to the top of the protective unlifelike atomic number 3 possible. I clamped both ends and then found that the middle was not existence held airtight enough for my liking. So, I placed a clamp in the middle likewise. The finish should comprise to observe what will be the spine of your pad flat American Samoa tightly arsenic possible on its length and so that the rubber eraser coats the inch and does not seep between the bills.

Step 4: Glue the Spine

Apply a thin coating of rubber cementum to the spine. Wait a few proceedings and utilise another matter coat.

Recapitulate doing this until there is a thick cake along the spine. I lost count of how many coats I put on, but it was probably around 10.

In retrospect, I would likely have liked to have made information technology even thicker still. The more coats you assume, the sturdier the spine will be and ultimately you are going to want to have a fastidious sturdy back.

Step 5: Release

Give the rubber cementum an hour or two to start to really fall and then release it from the clinch.

Carefully Sir Robert Peel gone the protective cardboard.

Also, you bequeath probably involve to clean rubber cement off of the top bill on the stack. Rather than spending much of time fussing with this and risk destructive the spine, I peeled this billhook off and past quickly rubbed it clean.

If all went well, you should now have a pad of $2 bills which can be exchanged for goods and services. Go away into the world and spend - darn you - spend!

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