(See Part 1)
Work has been intermittent and I didn't take a lot of pictures, but I:
- Glued up the spine to hold the signatures together, and glued on a piece of mull (not pictured) (it was just a rectangle of fabric from an old bedsheet).
- Trimmed the tapes and mull to be even and not extend too far from the spine.
- Cut some cover boards from a sheet of photo matte board, and glued them to the tapes & mull. Also cut a back board for the spine.
- Glued the endsheets down. Oops! Two mistakes here. First, I didn't include endsheets in my printout, so I lost the first and last page of the book while doing this. And second, I should have glued the cover paper on first.
- Cut some cover paper from a sheet of scrapbook paper and glued it to the spine board and the cover boards, then wrapped it around and glued it down.
- Cut some decorative endpapers from pages of an old, very derelict and irreparable novel, and glued them onto the insides of the covers. This is a hack; if I had glued the endsheets down after putting the cover paper on, this probably would have been unnecessary, and a proper decorative endpaper should be a folio that glues onto the first and last page of the book, but I didn't want to lose more book content pages.
...and that's it! I'm very happy with the feel of the book construction; it feels solid and usable and not like it will fall apart if I handle it roughly. One of the most solid books I've ever made; this sewing on tapes is The Real Deal. I'm not 100% happy with the aesthetic choices I made (e.g. the selection of cover paper), and I definitely messed up the endsheets (and the way I wrapped the cover paper suffered as a result), but overall this was Not Bad. I rate this project a B+.
Now I'm looking forward to actually playing Lok!