My grail diary journey

[TheBadger1979]

I set out on my grail diary journey a few years ago and made a good start but never finished it for one reason or another. I've finally got round to picking it up again and am at the stage where I'm just about to sew the signatures together after cutting them all out today, this is my progress so far, hopefully I'll be able to post some regular updates now I'm back in the swing of it.

 

[jadedprop]

Nice work. Looking forward to seeing finished diary.

 

[FrankL76]

Very nicely done. What font did you use?

 

[TheBadger1979]

Very nicely done. What font did you use?

So these are some files I downloaded many years ago from somewhere and I've tidied the writing up a bit and made it sharper and added some colour where needed.

 

[TheBadger1979]

Few update photos on progress, I've printed a few test inserts out which seem to have worked well. My next step for the diary is to have a go at ageing the leather a bit so it doesn't look as clean and new.

 

[Andre771]

Looks good! Is that paper weathered or did you get it like that?

 

[TheBadger1979]

Looks good! Is that paper weathered or did you get it like that?

The paper is ivory coloured paper, probably a bit too thick at 120gsm, if I did it again I'd go for something around the 100gsm mark. I aged it by putting cold black tea in a spray bottle and spraying it onto the paper then quickly dried it using a hair dryer, worked really well.

 

[beowulf573]

What weight and type of leather did you use? It looks amazing, can't wait to start mine.

 

[TheBadger1979]

What weight and type of leather did you use? It looks amazing, can't wait to start mine.

So this is something else I would change if I did it again, it's just over 1mm thick, I've seen some leather at about 0.7mm, I'd definitely go for the thinnest leather you can get hold of