Advanced Potion Making
Your favorite Book Prop
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kalkamel
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FingerPaint
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Where is the text coming from for the Ninth Gate Book?
When I was a child, my mother was a librarian and did some book binding for repairs. I didn't remember this but it must have stuck in my mind, because when I was older, I ended up making a few books for film as well as friends over the years.
Here is one of my favorites, it's from Bram Stoker's Dracula. I acid etched a plates for the printing (which I still have) and also a plate to emboss "Vampyre" into the books cover. In order to do this, I jacked up my 1967 Alfa Spider (sports car) and rested the full weight of the front onto the plate to get the impression deep enough. The hasp was cut from brass and engraved.
Here is one of my favorites, it's from Bram Stoker's Dracula. I acid etched a plates for the printing (which I still have) and also a plate to emboss "Vampyre" into the books cover. In order to do this, I jacked up my 1967 Alfa Spider (sports car) and rested the full weight of the front onto the plate to get the impression deep enough. The hasp was cut from brass and engraved.
I know it's been said a number of times but even being a big reader myself, the only book prop to ever jump out at me and stick in my head as much as the film itself was the necronomicon. I would surrender half of my Star Wars collection for an accurate copy of that book, tanned skin and all. (If the face was to move, I'd give up the whole collection...lol)
