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| This is the set up for when you pare leather, which is when you use a weird shaped knife (as pictured above) to shave down the back of your leather to make it fit onto a book better. You're supposed to bevel off the edges especially for where they get turned under and whatnot so that it's less lumpy. What I have learned: I hate leather. And I also love it. I...I am very emotionally confused with regard to leather. On the one hand it looks amazing and it's so smooth and nice and fancy and it's actually kind of fun to pare it down when you're in the zone and not messing up. |
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| ...but when you do mess up it is AWFUL. And ok actually that big slice in the center i sort of did on purpose after I'd already screwed up in less noticeable ways, so I was just messign around to see what other kind of damages could happen. but anyway, yes, it is hard to control the paring and not take out massive accidental chunks and have to start all over again which is really really lame. so...leather and I , we have some issues to work out. |
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| Ok so but after I figured out the leather and pared it down jsut right and attached it to my cover boards, Brenda decided to use it as an example for how you do Titling, which we weren't realy meant to cover but we did anyway, and it is really cool! This machine is called a quick print, and that bar in the front can hold up to like 4 or 5 lines of type, and so you position your cover (or whatever) it the right place and then pull down on the lever and it presses the type into the leather (or whatever) Oh and also we were doing it with gold leaf ( I don't know if you can do it with regular printing ink or anything---like many things in this class, I understand enough to go step by step through the one process, but I have no real idea of the greater issues or theories at work here. which....kind of sucks.) But ANYWAY what is awesome is that we used gold leaf so you jsut have this little piece of gold foil-stuff and you put it down between your book and the type and press it down and the type is heated and...yeah, you know, i have no freakign clue how ti works, at all, but the result is: |
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| A title! Woo! This book I've been working on belongs to the lovely Jennifer Ricks, who I hope will be pleased with the results! Brenda said that tomorrow we'll add some more decorative gold leafy ness--some lines or something i think. Anyway, we'll all see! |
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| This is the stack of books that I've rebacked this week. I'm not really sure how I feel about rebacking yet. I mean, it is kind of like magic, and that is really great. Maybe it's just that I'm still really really bad at it. That is probably the cause of my emotional reservations.Tomorrow we're having our little grading meetings which is going to be lame. Whatever. The next two weeks are going to be Fundamentals of Bookbinding, which I think will be exciting and great. I'm excited to do just straight bookbinding, without the conservation aspect. It'll be a nice change of pace. There's going to be TWELVE people in the class so we'll all have to share tables--Emilie and I are going to consolidate ourselves into one table but haven't yet decided if I'm moving to her place or she's moving to mine :) |
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So THAT'S the paring knife that was so hard to find. I was WAY off. (I have reservations about leather because remember what a jerk that guy was at the leather place? Chump.)
SERIOUSLY! I was thinking about him yesterday and how I want to go back to that store and throw my pared leather in his face and then perhaps my paring knife (Which TOTALLY EXISTS AND IS A REAL THING) at his throat. Thoughts?
I'm a little sad that you're ending the conservation part of the class, but I take solace in knowing that straight bookbinding will be even more awesome.
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