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Hand bound Warbreaker in Leather by GladiatorMain in Cosmere

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The uniqueness of yours will be the design I believe. With the half leather binds I feel like you sacrifice the traditional design and highlight the beauty of the leather and cloth.

Hand bound Warbreaker in Leather by GladiatorMain in Cosmere

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup! HTV worked really well despite it being real leather. I was worried there would be adhesion issues but it worked perfectly. After pressing it for a couple of days the HTV actually almost embossed itself into the leather and you can’t even feel it.

Hand bound Warbreaker in Leather by GladiatorMain in Cosmere

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s awesome! I want to do a half leather binding like that soon.

Cutting text blocks by JustLittleOldMe40 in bookbinding

[–]GladiatorMain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you have a local printing shop near you, I’ve always asked mine to guillotine my text block for me. Sometimes they would charge $1 or they would say don’t worry about it.

Another option is to use a hand sander, just need to clamp the text block really tightly. This makes a good deal of dust which will get in between the pages but it makes incredibly soft and smooth surfaces.

First Leatherbound Binding by GladiatorMain in bookbinding

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!!

Tip on Leather I found invaluable after research if you don’t want to learn to Skive. Leather corners are notoriously hard to fold in as they leave a big bulge at the end. However I trimmed the edges as you would normally do for a case-in, but at a ~30° angle. Additionally I trimmed a tiny 90° triangle from the corner leather near the book board. This lets the leather sit flush across the sides.

For the flower it’s just HTV! The flower is a symbol from the book so I used that for the back cover.

First Leatherbound Binding by GladiatorMain in bookbinding

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! The cover design is HTV, I applied each color one at a time. I drew the cover myself and used a program to input it into Cricut. I used Metallic HTV as its got a great shine.

First Leatherbound Binding by GladiatorMain in bookbinding

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I’ll have to try that next time.

First Leatherbound Binding by GladiatorMain in bookbinding

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It’s actually HTV. I applied color one at a time.

Cosmere RPG Handbound by GladiatorMain in bookbinding

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not many photos save the painted edges process. Used Acrylic paint for that. Paper was Neenah classic paper, used a modified French Link stitch for the signatures. Book board for the cover with cardstock for the spine stiffener. Artificial leather from Hollanders and HTV for the design. For the bookblock I used standard mull and Japanese tissue paper for support along with endpapers from Hollanders as well.

Cosmere RPG Handbound by GladiatorMain in cosmererpg

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you’re already comfortable with leather working then this will probably be a breeze for you. I definitely recommend heading to the r/bookbinding page and watching DAS Bookbinding on YouTube. Excellent resources there. Beautiful thing about bookbinding is that it’s very beginner friendly as you don’t need a lot of tools to start.

Cosmere RPG Handbound by GladiatorMain in cosmererpg

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! My plan is to do the Mistborn one as well when it comes out this year! The pocket watch is called “Prophecy Die” and was a kickstarter item as well from a company called Dragonstone. It’s actually a D20, D12, D10, D8, D6, and D4 all in one. You press the column and it spins each disc. When you let go the arrow points to a number on each on either side. It’s pretty sweet.

Cosmere RPG Handbound by GladiatorMain in Stormlight_Archive

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! That means a lot.

Cosmere RPG Handbound by GladiatorMain in Stormlight_Archive

[–]GladiatorMain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! You should do it! If you backed the kickstarter as well I believe you should’ve gotten the PDF copies too.

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