Using stainless steel washers, nuts, and bolts to secure seed words is cool, but you don't need 24; you can be much more compact. 😆

You only need six one-inch washers with quarter-inch holes; label them A, B, C, D, E, and F so you can put them back in order if they get shuffled.

Put FOUR words on each washer; two on each side, and only stamp the necessary first four letters of each word. There's even room to stamp an eight character seed fingerprint if you spread it across two washers.

Use a 1/4-20 x 3/4 inch stainless screw. Even if you add an unstamped washer to each end to hide the words, you'll still only need one third (eight) of the 24 washer count commonly used.😃

A "nylock" nut will discourage the casually curious from unscrewing the assembly and discovering what it's all about.😜

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Take a hinge off a door, stamp it and replace..

Just be sure it's not aluminum...😃

Yeah, but 24 is heavier which makes it useful to beat the shit out of the $5 wrench attacker with.

Great idea! 👏🏻

I did the same

If there are 2 words on each side, how do you know the sequence? Like which word is number one, which is number two?

Great question...🤔👍

Each washer is labeled on one side with a sequence letter; the first four words are on washer A, and sequence starting on the A side left to right, front to back...

Likewise with B through F...

I'll post a sample photo in a bit...😃

Note the dash separating the two words on each side...

Only four letters needed for each word.

Note the four of eight fingerprint characters on the back of washer B...

😆

Just buy the extra washers.

Less about price; more about compactness...😃

Yeah, fair enough. Washers can be awkward.