I greatly enjoyed making this one. I wanted to try putting the paper onlay on in a different way. (No pictures of the process since I had my hands busy and no time to spare for taking photos.)
First was again to pick the part of the paper that I needed gone. I felt like all colours played nicely into the colour palette of the comic, but I needed room to put a title on and wanted the cover less busy. I felt like the red and orange area would be a better fit than wave themed one, so I cut that way. I painstakingly tried to keep the feathers of all those birds intact (so so many birds... ) but this time voted against cutting along the legs as well, there were too many legs and they rip easily off when wet or glue down crooked. So off with the legs it was. (I also got rid of a few birds to make room for the spine and front title.)
When laying down the onlay I decided against putting the onlay on the cover and instead placed the cover onto the onlay. I marked the cover position on the back of the onlay glued the paper up and hit my first challenge. Which was to transfer the glued up onlay to a clean sheet of waste paper so I would not ruin the cloth. To work in the hinge I used sheet of plastic (I cut open an old plastic sleeve for documents), which worked well enough to start with. I had time to get the paper nicely set into the hinge and over the spine stiffener and then I had to peel the sheet away form the paper onlay. Which would have been much easier if there weren't so many tight curves and edges in the design. I got it off almost intact and with no visible issue when I was done. The glue had still dried a bit too fast, but I think it's the way to go. (Next time I will try adding some paste.)
When the paper was on I pressed it shortly, and then put the book block inside and weighed down again, this time between metal edged boards that have a lip to hold down the hinge.
The ledge is actually quite large on my boards (those were self-made by a friend). You can see where the wood ends and boards start. I have 3 different boards on each side to completely even out the protruding edge so I can adjust those lips to the case's board thickness. I neither want the book dangling without support just being pinched tightly at the hinge nor does it help much if the lip is so short it doesn't reach down the full board thickness at the hinge.
Btw, the boards for evening out are exactly cut to size of the pressing boards and I marked each thickness so I know I'm using the corresponding boards on each side.
Now to the issues and possible future issues with this bind.
Again I was a bit late and some parts were to dry already to adhere nicely to the case so I had to shove some glue under the paper. Thankfully, the cloth was very forgiving in that area. It doesn't look like it but it's sort of coated and not paper backed at all. (Naturally I have only a tiny bit left of it.)
I also made this case, hot stamped the title and cased in in one day. The case was not entirely dry when I stamped the title which can be seen by the slightly too deep indentation of the letters. Especially at the 'n' at the end.
The paper feels like it sits more on top than it has in previous binds. Which makes it a bit more prone to scuffing, also, all the pointed angles are not ideal. Even less the ones in the hinge area. It would have been preferable to have none of the small bits situated in an area with motion. I already had to glue down a few beaks and feather tips there. I will see how it holds up to in the long run.
case
cover - 1mm grey board
spine stiffener - cardstock
cover material - commercial book cloth Colibri (malachite)
paper onlay - effect paper
title and other decoration - hot stamped (silver and blind tooled)
inner book
book block - Museumspapier 120gsm
endpapers - effect paper
endbands - effect paper and linnen core (10/3)
Full cloth binding with paper onlay (Bradel binding)
materials used
inner book
paper - schleipen fly 05, 115gsm
endpapers - Ingres Bütten (black)
endbands - linnen thread wrapped with chiyogami paper
case
boards - 1mm grey board
spine stiffener - card stock
cover material - Iris book cloth (black)
paper onlay - chiyogami paper title - hot stamped with heat activated foil (white)
