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I wanted a new sketch book.. so.. I'm making one. No idea what I'm doing, but that's never stopped me before
Roughly following the directions from here:
http://www.jamiebutler.com/tutorials/bookbinding1.php
First step was to fold the "folios" which are basically pieces of paper folded in half and then nested together. I'm using 10 folios of 5 pieces of paper each (so 100 pages not counting that you loose two for the cover, so 98 usable). No pictures of that...
Once that's done you punch holes through the fold and then stitch them all together with "tape" (pieces of cloth) tucked into the stitches. The tape will be glued down later.
Then you put glue in the crack between the folios and clamp it for a while (no pics of this) and then the tape is glued to the outside. The scrap if paper in the middle is wax (actually butcher) paper to prevent any accidental bleed of the glue into the inside pages.
A piece of cloth is then glued over the whole back and outside pages and clamp the whole thing overnight.
To be continued.. later... we have some other team members in town this week so not sure when I'm going to get a chance to get back to it, by/before next weekend anyway
Roughly following the directions from here:
http://www.jamiebutler.com/tutorials/bookbinding1.php
First step was to fold the "folios" which are basically pieces of paper folded in half and then nested together. I'm using 10 folios of 5 pieces of paper each (so 100 pages not counting that you loose two for the cover, so 98 usable). No pictures of that...
Once that's done you punch holes through the fold and then stitch them all together with "tape" (pieces of cloth) tucked into the stitches. The tape will be glued down later.
Then you put glue in the crack between the folios and clamp it for a while (no pics of this) and then the tape is glued to the outside. The scrap if paper in the middle is wax (actually butcher) paper to prevent any accidental bleed of the glue into the inside pages.
A piece of cloth is then glued over the whole back and outside pages and clamp the whole thing overnight.
To be continued.. later... we have some other team members in town this week so not sure when I'm going to get a chance to get back to it, by/before next weekend anyway