Did some progress for my Dragon Rider trilogy.
Book Three's case is just drying and being pressed. (Cork leather is a little resistant to being glued…)
Book One is finished, I hope. But not without shocking me when I got upstairs today. I was surprised with not only glue stains on the inside, but also big patch of wetness? AAAAAH.
Funnily enough, what a night of pressing and drying didn't do, half an hour of breathing freely did. The patch dried:
So, here is the state of things. Book Two finished since a few months, Book One drying in my G clamps, Book Three waiting to be cased in.
And while I'm not done yet, let's have an early recap of things that didn't go well with this project (that I remember):
- I planned my signatures too thick with too thick papers. Those wouldn't have become books, but circles. So, I had to reprint.
- Measured for cover boards once, using one book. Had to recut for the other two books (which was the first main spanner thrown into this)
- After a multiple month break, I forgot that the cases are not built around the text block, but seperately and then the text block is glued in for Book One. So, less red endpapers for that one.
That's… it? So far. Still the last book to finish. It sure
feels more cursed. But then, the cork leather is not as easy to work with as cloth. Thicker, doesn't stick to glue as easily… So, while I like the look and feel of it, I'm not sure I'll work with it anytime soon…
Will I redo those eventually? Mayhaps. Likely. Gimmeh a year or two of more practise. And with me not being afraid of taking a hammer to the spine anymore, they'd be rounded as well.
