Episode 90: More 2013 Schedules

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit on a moving train for nine hours. Twice. I took the opportunity to sew five text blocks; two on the way up and three on the way back. Last weekend I spent a half a day in my stationary house and cased three of them in.

Three schedules/diaries/calendars with monthly calendars from January 2013 to March 2014 plus two yearly calendars for 2013 and 2014. There are nine signatures of four pages each for a total of 144 pages. 101 pages are lined for journal keeping. There are also about eleven pictures of Kanazawa included and one, the mompei blue one, has English-Japanese translations of a variety of words and phrases. They are A6 in size - 41/2 inches by 6 inches for my American friends.

The mompei-blue one has brown pages while the other two have your standard white pages. The page numbers are extraordinarily large compared with normal journals. I did this because I thought it would be fun and it would be easy to remember what page you wrote something on. If you can't remember, there is also a bookmark in the red one and the white one.

Here's the skinny on the covers. I cut the numbers out of the bookcloth. Then I glued the paper on the book board for the numbers. Then I glued the bookcloth on the book board with the numbers over the paper.

One thing I learned on both the train ride and the weekend was that doing one thing repeatedly is a good way to get better at it. I believe it's called practice. I wish I had more time to practice but while on the train I found that I could sew one nine-signature text block in about an hour. I sewed on book in 45 minutes; a personal best. I tried to time myself on casing in but I kept getting interrupted by life. However, rough estimate puts casing in - including measuring and cutting the book cloth, measuring and cutting the cutouts for the numbers, gluing the inside paper, gluing the book cloth, gluing the endpapers, and pressing - at about three hours. I definitely need more practice casing in. Fortunately, I have eight more text blocks that need to be cased in.

If you would like one of these, email:

tedorigawa.bookmakers@gmail.com

and let me know. I think I could let them go for ten bucks each. (That's about 55 cents (US)/hour on the train. Too cheap, eh?)

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