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Sep. 4th, 2008
Huzzah.
The endbands were sewn down without incident, and the pastedowns--I was right; they would want a touch of reworking--are pasted. Now for another 19-hour stay in the press while I figure out how to transfer the badge art onto the cover, and we're gold.
Didn't get shots of the book pre-leathering, and didn't get shots mid-endbanding, and that's a drag. But I've gotten a few pictures of it post-leather and post-endbanding, and tomorrow, I'll get some of the pastedowns.
(another first: my first zoomorphic knot, a fox. It's a weird amalgam of Viking knotwork styles, the eldest of which is still a good 50 years younger than the binding style. But it's handsome anyhow, and this is the Meridian SCA. The only people in Kingdom who're THAT concerned with Period Accuracy are either A&S judges, or heavy fighters trying to edge out light fighters and folk wanting to use "firearms"*. And She Who Will Be Queen is fond of Viking knotwork and foxes. So hey.)
Largest lesson learnt:
Prototype, prototype, prototype.
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*-"firearms" being rubberband guns. Flagrantly period, the real thing is; RBGs are a nice, non-lethal proxy. It's just that the Knights hear "musketeer" and think Louis XIV (and other lightfighters hear *thunk* off their masks in melee) and they get twitchy. Something tells me if they learnt how to make and use the things, they'd see the shiny. But then we get into why guns replaced swords as prime war-weapons, and that smacks too much of reality for most of the anachronists in the audience, for whom time should've stopped when Elizabeth I died. Le sigh.
The endbands were sewn down without incident, and the pastedowns--I was right; they would want a touch of reworking--are pasted. Now for another 19-hour stay in the press while I figure out how to transfer the badge art onto the cover, and we're gold.
Didn't get shots of the book pre-leathering, and didn't get shots mid-endbanding, and that's a drag. But I've gotten a few pictures of it post-leather and post-endbanding, and tomorrow, I'll get some of the pastedowns.
(another first: my first zoomorphic knot, a fox. It's a weird amalgam of Viking knotwork styles, the eldest of which is still a good 50 years younger than the binding style. But it's handsome anyhow, and this is the Meridian SCA. The only people in Kingdom who're THAT concerned with Period Accuracy are either A&S judges, or heavy fighters trying to edge out light fighters and folk wanting to use "firearms"*. And She Who Will Be Queen is fond of Viking knotwork and foxes. So hey.)
Largest lesson learnt:
Prototype, prototype, prototype.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*-"firearms" being rubberband guns. Flagrantly period, the real thing is; RBGs are a nice, non-lethal proxy. It's just that the Knights hear "musketeer" and think Louis XIV (and other lightfighters hear *thunk* off their masks in melee) and they get twitchy. Something tells me if they learnt how to make and use the things, they'd see the shiny. But then we get into why guns replaced swords as prime war-weapons, and that smacks too much of reality for most of the anachronists in the audience, for whom time should've stopped when Elizabeth I died. Le sigh.
