Homemade Dot Grid Leather Bound Book

[ImolaS3]

Well, after failing to find a supplier of dot grid journals in the UK and finding the postage costs as high as the cost of the actual leuchtturm 1917 form Sweden, I decided to make my own!!! Never made a book before, so did a little research, bought some faux leather and card + a little ribbon the looked for good paper.

 

 

After trying 20 or so brands/types, I settled on 100gsm Conqueror ivroy paper as it is a nice light colour (I don't like white paper as much as a light cream) and there is absolutely no bleed through with my wettest ink in my wettest, broad-nibbed pen. None! There is a very slight echo, but far less than my Webnotebooks.

 

 

I made this with 96 sheets(12 hand-stitched signatures) which gives 192 pages and I included a contents page as the first.There is a little pocket for 'stuff', a ribbon (the end pieces are the same material) and elastic to hold it closed.

 

 

There are a few things I am not so happy about (the faux leather covering and final binding of cover), but the stitching and binding of pages went superbly and was great fun. I have learned a lot and this weekend will make a second for me and another for a friend who really wants one too.

Once I get my website up and running for a range of pen boxes and another mate's pens, I might make books (after another dozen or so to really get on top of it) and put them on it too as they are such fun to make

 

 

Hope you like

 

 

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[watch_art]

wow. very nice!

[txinsk]

It does take time to get used to doing all the work and making sure everything is just right. I am at #8 and I still need practice, but I am confident that my creations are functional and durable. They even look great at arms length. The photos you show are a good notebook, an excellent first try.

 

Rick

[sdcurnow]

Bravo, an excellent first attempt.

[nunez]

Very good!

 

Question on the paper: did you print the dots yourself?

 

If so, and perhaps this is a more general question, how are the dot's spaced? For example it would be very handy of the angle between a dot on the lower line and one on the line above made an angle of 52 degrees (for us Spencerian types) to help align the capitals. A bit like this.

 

Regards,

- SteveN

[jniforat]

great job!

[ag273n]

somewhere around this forum, i think i've seen this post twice, but anyways... i like your work, if thats your first time, then i guess you're good at making stuff or crafts.. good job the one i made is not as good as that