Booze in a Bible (or Any Book You Prefer)

Have you always wanted that secreted stash of booze at the ready, or do you have a friend that could use a fun gag gift?  Here's an idea.

ps- this is my first attempt at this project.  I feel there are better ways to make the final outcome look cleaner, but this was my process.

-exacto knife (I like Olfa - and if you get a style with the break away blade bits, you can get several uses from one blade)
-glue (paper glue of some variety)
-sticky felt
-scissors
-a marker
-the bottle of choice (featured here is soju, because it was tiny and I had a very hard time finding a small flask in South Korea)
-your hard cover book of choice (if I had searched a little longer I would've preferred a zipper covered bible, but i fell back on a boxed bible. . . might I also suggest any hardcover by Dickens.)

Trace the bottle onto the first page you want to cut.

It's important to note that the bottle should have a more shallow depth than the book you plan to use.

Otherwise your book may appear pregnant, or very proud.

Start cutting. 

It was my intention to time how long it took me to get through the whole book. . . approximately it took about 2.5 hours, and my fingers were pretty cramped from holding the knife.

Here is where my expertise takes a nap.

The pages of a bible are particularly thin.  It would've been neater to keep them all stacked and to keep cutting, but the old pages got in the way of making clean knife passes.

I tried gluing some pages together, it seemed to help a little, but not all the time.

While holding the book open the spine shifts which may cause your bottle shape to drift as well.

So, it isn't quite as clean as I had hoped, and the bottle shape drifts toward the spine the closer you get to the back of the book. . . . but for a gag gift- not bad.

Cut a few strips of the sticky felt a little taller than the hole made.

Place the strip as carefully as you can.  In the corners you may have to make cuts to avoid bunching and stretching.

Cut another piece of sticky felt in the shape of the bottle.

(you can use a page from the book as a form to follow)

Place in the bottom of the hole.

Place bottle and place in box.