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Notes to Self:
Sep. 7th, 2008 08:08 pmJones Tones Foil: It works infinitely better on sueded leather than on buttery-soft, sleek kidskin. Something about the glue stays gummy instead of drying to the ideal tackiness, whether it's left to cure for one hour or ten. Maybe better luck on fabric?
Buttery-soft, vegetable tanned kidskin: Oh, so sweet. How I love you, you lightweight and slightly spongy goatflesh. I will know better, next time, than to try and tool you at all.
PVA: When you're accustomed to the oh-god-get-it-right-the-first-time-glue-and-paper-and-board-meet-because-trying-to-pull-that-apart-will-end-the-WORLD!!!!!111eleventyone!! of working with thin paper? PVA's leather-to-wood drying time is *perfect*.
Of course, now that I've said that, life will cause something to go sideways and prove me wrong, but hey. What're hypotheses for if not for breaking?
Speaking of which--
Plans for cover treatments: Make three of them, at least. Expect the first one to go directly to hell without stopping for lunch. Be ready for the second one to follow it.
the PVA/leather/wood bond: Not as irreversable as I'd been led to believe. This opens interesting possibilities for other bindings.
Freehanding metal leaf paint or foil glue: Will give you a result roughly similar to kindergarteners' fingerpainting. Don't do it. Have a pattern. Work the pattern. If you can't get a pattern onto the lovely squeeshy kidskin, consider moving on to Cover Plan B or C.
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One of these days, I'll pause and tag all the bookbinding stuff so it's easier to get at. Not tonight, though. Tonight, there's The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe to read to my boyo. Somehow, I (a Baptist preacher's granddaughter) managed to miss the heavy allegory inherant in Aslan and his sacrifice, the first time I read that book. I'm'a see if I can ease Dae through the same way. Years down the line, if he re-reads things and is floored by the similarities between Aslan and certain other Summer Kings, so be it. But this time through, I'd like to just read him a faery tale.
Buttery-soft, vegetable tanned kidskin: Oh, so sweet. How I love you, you lightweight and slightly spongy goatflesh. I will know better, next time, than to try and tool you at all.
PVA: When you're accustomed to the oh-god-get-it-right-the-first-time-glue-and-paper-and-board-meet-because-trying-to-pull-that-apart-will-end-the-WORLD!!!!!111eleventyone!! of working with thin paper? PVA's leather-to-wood drying time is *perfect*.
Of course, now that I've said that, life will cause something to go sideways and prove me wrong, but hey. What're hypotheses for if not for breaking?
Speaking of which--
Plans for cover treatments: Make three of them, at least. Expect the first one to go directly to hell without stopping for lunch. Be ready for the second one to follow it.
the PVA/leather/wood bond: Not as irreversable as I'd been led to believe. This opens interesting possibilities for other bindings.
Freehanding metal leaf paint or foil glue: Will give you a result roughly similar to kindergarteners' fingerpainting. Don't do it. Have a pattern. Work the pattern. If you can't get a pattern onto the lovely squeeshy kidskin, consider moving on to Cover Plan B or C.
***
One of these days, I'll pause and tag all the bookbinding stuff so it's easier to get at. Not tonight, though. Tonight, there's The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe to read to my boyo. Somehow, I (a Baptist preacher's granddaughter) managed to miss the heavy allegory inherant in Aslan and his sacrifice, the first time I read that book. I'm'a see if I can ease Dae through the same way. Years down the line, if he re-reads things and is floored by the similarities between Aslan and certain other Summer Kings, so be it. But this time through, I'd like to just read him a faery tale.
