Bookbinding, update 3
Jan. 18th, 2007 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuIt looks like a real book! (A real book wrapped in wax paper sitting under heavy weights, at the moment, but nonetheless....)
The text block (i.e., the signatures all stitched together) looked and felt exactly like the text block from a professionally produced hardcover when I was done stitching it. The cover (boards glued to fabric) that I made this morning was just the right size for the text block -- actually a smidge too large, which is fine.
The only thing that I may be unhappy with is that I may have glued the text block a little too close to the spine; the book closes but it feels a little springier than it did when I was doing a dry runthrough. The "Yes!" brand adhesive that I'm using is not very forgiving -- you basically get about five seconds to line things up and then they are never going to separate again.
But, then again, this is the one on which it's ok to make mistakes.
So, it's going to sit under weights overnight, and we'll see what it's like in the morning. I'm not going to put the title on the exterior until Sunday at the earliest, but I did take pictures before assembling it tonight and I hope to post some of them over the weekend.
I think bookbinidng is going to turn into a very gratifying hobby.
The text block (i.e., the signatures all stitched together) looked and felt exactly like the text block from a professionally produced hardcover when I was done stitching it. The cover (boards glued to fabric) that I made this morning was just the right size for the text block -- actually a smidge too large, which is fine.
The only thing that I may be unhappy with is that I may have glued the text block a little too close to the spine; the book closes but it feels a little springier than it did when I was doing a dry runthrough. The "Yes!" brand adhesive that I'm using is not very forgiving -- you basically get about five seconds to line things up and then they are never going to separate again.
But, then again, this is the one on which it's ok to make mistakes.
So, it's going to sit under weights overnight, and we'll see what it's like in the morning. I'm not going to put the title on the exterior until Sunday at the earliest, but I did take pictures before assembling it tonight and I hope to post some of them over the weekend.
I think bookbinidng is going to turn into a very gratifying hobby.