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How to make a Cavanagh's Bar Matchbook.
By Dentge
This guide will show you how to make a matchbook from Cavanagh's Bar, it will also provide the .PNG files for you to make the matchbook with.
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What you'll need
You will need:

A colour printer,
A pair of scissors or a guillotine (Something that can cut straight),
A stapler and a staple,
The .PNG files, included at the bottom of this section
and some matches. (Optional! Don't play with matches, kiddos.)

Files:
Printing and cutting the matchbook.
You'll want your printer's paper intake thing to be calibrated well
(The thingies that keep your paper straight) or you may get a white line down one of the sides!

You may need to run some printing tests to see which side of the paper your printer prints on!
I used card stock to make mine but regular paper should be fine.

First print out the 'Matchbook outside'. Make sure you print it in the very center of the page.

Then you'll need to put the same piece of paper, the opposite side up to the first time back in the printer and print the other side. ('Matchbook inside')

then accurately use a pair of scissors or a guillotine to cut it out.
Check that the print is inline on both sides and then move on to the next step!
Folding the matchbook
The matchbook is supposed to be folded 40mm down from the top of the matchbook
(the end with the logo on it) and 80mm down from the top, It should look like this:
I got the white line of death because i didnt calibrate my printer :P

Adding the matches and staple
To add the matches, simply glue 14 matches together, side by side.
then place these matches into the small fold and staple them in place.

You are done! Have fun!
28 Comments
Inspector Lean Oct 1, 2023 @ 10:40am 
Gonna use this for my notes XD
Il Duce Oct 16, 2022 @ 11:59am 
@TUNABANDIt true, but not everyone has MREs
DrunkOnSuccess Aug 11, 2022 @ 8:58am 
This is awesome, thanks man.
BESTmove5284 Nov 13, 2021 @ 6:12pm 
Easy-does-it printer prop making... High-school all over again.
Седобородый Apr 11, 2021 @ 4:51pm 
this is cool
Jackeronie Dec 26, 2020 @ 11:39pm 
lmao just go to Cavanagh's and get one
geoffc86 Jun 28, 2020 @ 5:22pm 
This is super clever, and deserves a bump in the feed.
Elliott4014 May 19, 2020 @ 11:15am 
This is awesome, thanks!
TUNABANDIT Aug 3, 2019 @ 7:14pm 
You could just remove the matches from an American MRE, since they come with a matchbook
Dentge  [author] Oct 19, 2016 @ 8:24am 
aha, thats fine. id rather make match heads out of card and glue than pay that much for matches! XD good work finding them, though bro!