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Monday Jan 04, 2010
Episode 41: Red & Yellow 59
Monday Jan 04, 2010
Monday Jan 04, 2010
Holidays are a good time to catch up on things you wanted to do but claimed were too busy to accomplish because of 'work' or 'meetings' or 'lazying around in front of the tv." At least for me. This week I managed to finish the Wine Diary 2010 (see Episode 40: All Wined Out.) and today I finished a blank notebook with a red and yellow cover.
(I suspect a long dry spell for creating books is approaching in the near future.)
This bookbinding hobby is fascinating. My most recent: Red & Yellow 59 is a case-bound blank notebook with 10 signatures of five sheets each for 200 pages of total wonderfulness. The size is B6 which is 189 mm by 134mm for those of us on the metric scale. (About 7 and half inches high by 5 and a quarter inches wide.) The reason it's fascinating is the things you learn, eh? You know what I'm talking about?
I learned, for example, putting a elastic strap around this book. Didn't work out but I learned not to just paste it under the endpapers (green, in Red & Yellow 59) Next time I'll carve a little grove in the bookboard and crucify that sucker with a couple of 8 penny nails.
Audio up soon. Hang in there.
Pictured here with two green covered books made approximately 18 months ago. I actually made five but gave three away and kept the two worst ones. I mean, the ones I didn't want others to see. They have both been mightily and wonderfully used. Pocket-sized and handy is a descriptive phrase. The Red & Yellow 59 book is the same size. And, one hopes, will be equally as useful.
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