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Crossposting this from the leatherworking thread:Side Effects posted:I recently decided to try and make a pair of shoes. Made a plaster last of my feet, cut out some paper templates and just last night sewed the uppers to the lowers. Sorry for the poor quality photo, phone camera and my apartment doesn't have great lighting
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Love the stain on the body. Why did you seal the fretboard? Just for looks?
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Wasn't sure if there was a book making or paper craft thread, but this looks like a good place to post this. Ever since the quarantine started I've been reacquainting myself with my love of bookbinding by making my own sketchbooks. Still pretty rusty but I think these turned out alright:  The left two are stab bound, the gold leafed one is case bound. The green has really nice Tomoe River paper so I can sketch with my fountain pens and the other two are made with a cotton-rag printmaking paper. It's really nice getting back into this. Like seeing an old friend.
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Thank you! I really appreciate that. Instead of writing out the process, here are a few photos to document a pocket-size stab-bound book I made today. I'm not a great writer, so I thought this would be easier to understand than my bizarre grammar. Hopefully you'll find it interesting! The materials you need are pretty basic: paper, thread, a ruler, a needle, and an awl (or other sharp, pointy object). If you're cutting your paper to a desired size, then you'll need also an exacto or mat knife and a pencil. I'm using some fancy Lineco stuff, but any needle and thread will work just as fine.  (of course, a helper might be required)  Take one of your pages and create a stab-hole template. Measure and stab two holes near the corners with your awl .5in from each side. Then measure and stab two more holes roughly equidistant from each other as well as the two outer holes. Using the template, stab the four holes on each of the pages.   If you want to, you could now clip the pages together with a couple of binder clips and trim the edges if you are concerned about pages not being perfectly flush. I'm not worrying about that here, as this specific book is meant to be knocked around in a pocket so I don't mind if it's not perfect. Once done stabbing the pages, pull a length of thread about as long as your arm. Thread the needle and tie a knot to keep the thread from slipping off.  Now we're ready to start binding! To try and keep this simple, I'm going to label the holes #1 through #4. In the following pictures #1 will be the hole farthest from my hand and #4 being the closest. Start the binding on hole #2. Thread the needle through the entire book block and pull the needle and thread through. Leave a couple inches of thread (called a tail) on the other side. You'll need it later.   Thread the needle through the same hole again and pull taut. Now you should have a little loop of thread over the spine of the book.   Thread the needle through #3 and create a loop the same way we did through #2.  Do the same with #4. This time, however, we're going to push the needle through the same hole twice, creating a loop on the spine as well as the edge of the book.   Now we're going to push the needle back through #3 and #2 until we get to #1. No need to make loops this time, just make straight runs of thread between each.  Make the same two loops over the spine and edge as you did on #4. You should now have to lengths of thread on the same side of the book; one attached to the needle and the other the tail.  Pull the needle under the thread around #2 and tie a knot or two.   Once that's done, you now have a complete book!  I'm in the process of making a case bound book but because that uses glue it'll need a couple of days for drying and pressing before photos can be taken. Once it's done though, I'll be happy to document that process too. Edit: Spelling Chip McFuck fucked around with this message at 01:44 on May 15, 2020 |
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I have a friend whose really into Hedorah, so I attempted to make a little sculpture of the kaiju for his birthday. I think it turned out pretty good!
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