Sunday, October 31, 2010

Fretboard


a present for a guitarist friend's birthday. Since the only drawing things I have are apparently water based which inevitably smears upon application of the matte medium I use to seal off my covers, I lit on the idea of drawing it on tracing paper and then simply gluing the drawn side to the cover. simple innovation that erases all that frustration!


binding is a twisted link and kettle with doubled over variation

2 comments:

  1. T,

    Beautiful as always. Please explain to me how you do the doubled one. I would love to try it. Do you do all the brackets at once, or do half and then the other half?

    A

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  2. Yeah, you'll notice that the bottom of the binding is not linked/locked. that's because instead of going to the next signature, I simply go back up the signature. If you wanted to, you could do a small little stitch at the bottom to do a coptic style lock (like I did for wright's book) but the book (this one), even without the bottom link, is still sturdy and unwobbly.

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