Victory!!!! (so far, anyway.)

Just spent an hour and a half lovingly rubbing leather onto wooden boards. Discovered that when you use the heel of your hand to turn edges and smooth things across the board, instead of fingertips or knuckles, everything spreads more evenly and you don't get weird ridges and grooves.

And here's to Abi Sutherland's Bookweb. Thanks to her neatly-illustrated tutorial, I now have a ~4x6x1" semiStonyhurst book with tabbed corners. Nice, neat, not too bulky, cozy rounded corners so's not to snag things in the gearbag/poke folk/come apart under use.

At the moment, it's wrapped sleekly in a soft and unwrinkled cloth (a cut-off sleeve from a shirt I'm modifying, actually), in the press, where it'll stay for at least the next 22 hours. And then the adventure of semi-Period endbands begins. I've got the cores and the wrapping-thread all ready already, so that shouldn't give too much cause for freakout.

Now to look at the pastedowns I've made and see whether they'll work as is with the book, or whether it'd be the better part of valour to set 'em aside for another project and rework 'em on different paper.

Either way, this project should be wrapped by Sunday, and Monday, there'll be photos.

Huzzah!!!
~dances~