Episodes
Friday Sep 30, 2016
Episode 146: Book Travel
Friday Sep 30, 2016
Friday Sep 30, 2016
Friday Sep 09, 2016
Episode 145: Experiment Awry!
Friday Sep 09, 2016
Friday Sep 09, 2016
A great experiment gone awry. Or not. How so? I used a roller instead of a brush for the first time on one of my books. This resulted in waaaay too much glue on too thin paper. I adjusted the amount of glue. Still too much. Perhaps the glue was too watery? Using the roller was much quicker than a brush. I liked it. I need to get a bigger boat… for the glue so I can get just enough on the roller.
I learned getting too much glue on the roller is not a good idea; a roller is much quicker than a brush; glue that is too watery messes up the paper; the proper thickness of the paper is important; cover on the book board first. All valuable lessons, eh?
The right tool for the right job. You’ve probably heard that before and it seems to apply. For more detailed gluing, a brush of the proper size is, naturally, superior to the roll. For gluing in endpapers, however, I think a roller might just be the right tool. I shall continue to experiment. Probably to infinity.
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Tuesday Sep 06, 2016
Episode 144: The Request!
Tuesday Sep 06, 2016
Tuesday Sep 06, 2016
The story is about a young woman with a past who falls in love with an much older man with a past. The man is a letterpress printer and artist. The woman is a bartender, wife, free-spirit who falls in with an Artist and his agent to learn about Bookbinding, Papermaking, Letterpress Printing. She must learn these things to be knowledgeable about the older man's books. It doesn't help that the young woman looks like the older man's long-dead daughter.