Assassin's Creed III

[Barneyrfd]

I really don't know how, so I was going to ask. Any tips?

There's lots of good articles out there on how to bind a book but here's a link to one I have seen that seems pretty good. I've binded (bound...?) a few books myself following a similar proceedure and it's not really difficult you just need to have patience.

Bookbinding Tutorial by JamesDarrow on deviantART

I found it trickier to put your pages into the proper order for printing so that when you bind them they are in the correct order in each signatures. Again patience is a must.

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[MAAZ]

This is a Great Looking Book!!
I don't play Assassin's Creed but I think I'm going to print out the pages and make a book!
Thank you Monkey540 for all the scans!!

 

[MAAZ]

Thanks very much monkey, really appreciate the effort you took to scan and share. Some really nice watercolour artwork in this pamphlet. Will look good on a nice heavy paper stock using the coffee staining/aging technique.

By the way, the font used for the writing is called LaDanse if anyone is interested.

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How do you use coffee for the aging technique?
Do you rub coffee grinds across the pages?

 

[Monkey540]

How do you use coffee for the aging technique?
Do you rub coffee grinds across the pages?

See my pic above of the codex?
That was done with coffee.
fill a pan/pot with instant coffee mix and hot water. take your page the submerge it in the liquid, carefully pull it out, put it down on your counter, dab it with a paper towel, then let it sit on a paper towel to dry. If you are weathering a book, you want to stack the pages on top of each other and let sit for a few days till dry, do not peel till it's dry, and your pages will be nicely weathered.

 

[MAAZ]

See my pic above of the codex?
That was done with coffee.
fill a pan/pot with instant coffee mix and hot water. take your page the submerge it in the liquid, carefully pull it out, put it down on your counter, dab it with a paper towel, then let it sit on a paper towel to dry. If you are weathering a book, you want to stack the pages on top of each other and let sit for a few days till dry, do not peel till it's dry, and your pages will be nicely weathered.

Thanks for the info!
I'm going to give this a try!

 

[Barneyrfd]

Monkey's description is pretty much the method i use as well. You can also sprinkle some instant coffee crystals onto the wet paper for some spot aging. Some people prefer to use tea to age the paper as well.

One big thing to be aware of is to age the paper before printing if you are using an inkjet, if you print first and the try to age it, it is quite likely the inkjet printing will run unless it is waterproof ink. Not a problem to use this technique if printed on a laser jet since its waterproof.

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[Ford W Maverick]

Sweet collection!. I'm only just now working my way through the games. I played the first one through when it was new, but I'm replaying it now with plans to go straight through. Can't wait to see how this turns out!

 

[Monkey540]

Thanks for the info!
I'm going to give this a try!

With the technique you can get results like this:

Sweet collection!. I'm only just now working my way through the games. I played the first one through when it was new, but I'm replaying it now with plans to go straight through. Can't wait to see how this turns out!

Just a taste of my collection my friend, check this:

 

[Ford W Maverick]

Sweet!

 

[RobertMuldoon]

I really don't know how, so I was going to ask. Any tips?

When I made my Abner Journal I used this YouTube video which I found a lot better than just trying to work it all out from pictures.

As other people have said, it's not very difficult, but it is time consuming and takes some patience.

You might also want to make/buy a book press. I built one for myself using two wooden chopping boards, two long M10 coach bolts, two washers and two wingnuts. I used it a lot for my build.

 

[RobertMuldoon]

How do you use coffee for the aging technique?
Do you rub coffee grinds across the pages?

I've done a lot of ageing of paper recently for a journal I made (I just linked it in another post on this thread), I had a little system going for that. I made a bath of chai tea and water and I initially ran the paper through that and let it dry. The chai tea gives a very yellow colour which I liked as a base coat. I then took Yorkshire tea bags, soaked them and dabbed them on the pages. I found for the effect I wanted it took 2-3 dabbing cycles to get the right colour. The dabbing gives you a nice mottled effect, the fast it's a teabag helps a little too because the perforations add to the patterns

Also while the pages are wet sprinkle on some coffee grounds (I did it with unused grounds). That will then bleed dark coffee out a little bit from each ground and it will create a very realistic looking 'foxing' effect. If you're making a book I'd say don't do this to every page, just do it here and there to add some impact.

That sorts out the colour, another step with ageing is wear. I found that just because the pages are old coloured they still don't 'feel' old. This is where sandpaper comes in handy. For my journal I sanded all the edges except the spine to stop them feeling like crisp new pages. I also dog eared the odd page here and there throughout the book. You can also think about little tears on the edges of pages. When I build my journal I thought about how it would have been used and what sort of life it would have had. So I distressed it to look like it had been stuffed in and out of bags and pockets many times, I also thought that it would likely be dropped from things and so I banged the corners on my vice to give them simulated drops onto hard surfaces. I'm pleased with how it turned out and it looks like it has a story to tell.

If you have any more questions give me a shout.

 

[rorschach999]

Thats almost Exactly how I did my journal execpt for the Chai Tea - I also put it the boot of the car to roll around a bit for a month to get it a little "battle" damaged worked great too

but you have to remember "less is more" when it comes to aging and distressing it is very easy to go over the top and loose the look your looking for, when you get to the stange "I think it needs a little more" thats when to stop

regards

Mike

 

[RobertMuldoon]

I couldn't agree more there, it's a very fine line between 'just enough' and 'way over cooked'. You just have to force yourself to put it down and say 'I'm done'. I didn't have in a car to roll about, but I did stuff it into a bag a few times for trips to see friends and to and from work, and it's glamour shoot at the museum of course :lol The only other thing I just remembered I did was to rub in some coffee grounds to the cover where your finger tips are when you hold in one hand, it helped with the 'well used' feel on the cover.

I experimented with lots of other tea types (I had a lot in my cupboards), but I found that chai was best for a nice yellow colour (depending on the effect you want it could work on its own). Green tea definitely didnt work :lol

Thats almost Exactly how I did my journal execpt for the Chai Tea - I also put it the boot of the car to roll around a bit for a month to get it a little "battle" damaged worked great too

but you have to remember "less is more" when it comes to aging and distressing it is very easy to go over the top and loose the look your looking for, when you get to the stange "I think it needs a little more" thats when to stop

regards

Mike

 

[RobertMuldoon]

I just spotted your note on page ordering. If you're using MS Word it's actually very easy (I use 2010) and Word handles all that for you.

All you have to do is go to page layout tab on the ribbon bar, go to margins, custom margin, pick the 'book fold option' on 'multiple pages', set the 'sheets per booklet' to how many pages you want per signature. Make sure print in duplex and that should be all you need, word will automatically shuffle the pages about at print time.

I chose 16 page booklets, so my signatures were printed on 4 A4 sheets which I folded in half to make up each 16 A5 page signature.

There's lots of good articles out there on how to bind a book but here's a link to one I have seen that seems pretty good.
I've binded (bound...?) a few books myself following a similar proceedure and it's not really difficult you just need to have patience.

Bookbinding Tutorial by JamesDarrow on deviantART

I found it trickier to put your pages into the proper order for printing so that when you bind them they are in the correct order in each signatures. Again patience is a must.

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[Monkey540]

Only problem for my codex pages is they are already cut page size (no signatures), I may have to just glue up the spine.

 

[Barneyrfd]

Only problem for my codex pages is they are already cut page size (no signatures), I may have to just glue up the spine.

I was wondering if that was the case when I saw your images a few posts back, that's why I asked how you were planning on binding your codex. I've seen "real" book bound this way but what happens is over time and use the pages tend to fall out. I think you would need to work the glue into the edges of the pages really well and use a glue that is pretty flexible when it drys to help the pages stay together.

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[Monkey540]

I was wondering if that was the case when I saw your images a few posts back, that's why I asked how you were planning on binding your codex. I've seen "real" book bound this way but what happens is over time and use the pages tend to fall out. I think you would need to work the glue into the edges of the pages really well and use a glue that is pretty flexible when it drys to help the pages stay together.

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I checked out a tutorial for binding using hot glue, seemed pritty simple, I might give that a try.

 

[Barneyrfd]

I checked out a tutorial for binding using hot glue, seemed pritty simple, I might give that a try.

I've actually used hot glue on a binding project before and although the glue holds well and is flexible when cured, it has a pretty short working time before it dries.

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[mrfreddie]

a bit off topic but I would love to see some of the stuff from AC 4.
The canvas prints that came with the black chest version looks really cool.

 

[rorschach999]

hi,

Check these turorials out there are more relating to bookbinding on her listing but this might help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av_rU-yOPd4 - Hardback case bound books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBUJtRNUGOA - Book Cloth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbgW0r7uXw - Perfect binding (using Glue)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTeg8MH0PtI - how to make a book press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGQ5P8QVHSg - Text Block for Hardback books (signatures)

hope these help and please check out her other tutorials too they are really useful and simple to follow