My Hero Prop (Grail Diary)

I'm just starting a new grail diary for a member of this forum, and I would like to show the steps I follow for the creation.

1. After cutting:

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2. Painting pages which need it:

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belsilene said:
Great job, as usual.

Someday ... I'll have my own ;)
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Thanks very much Belsi!

4. Bath time.

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5. Collecting and pressing the sheets.

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6. Time to glue extra pages.
I glue pages like "X marks the spot", "Henry's crucifixion painting" or blank pages for the maps (but not the maps) at this point.

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7. Hand-sewn and press again.

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8. Pasting all maps.

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9. Sanding and detailing corners.

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And that's for all again!
 
Thank you very much for letting us see the process of making you diary demiguel.m mate. A very interesting read to be sure.

Guys, I own one of these diaries and its in my opinion the best out there. As I've mentioned before somewhere, my diary has also been to Lucasfilm and Skywalker Ranch on several occasions and its been seen by the 'top men' there and the reaction was unanimous, they think its absolutely brilliant.

Thank you again bud. I'm proud to own one of these beauties.

Highest regards

MARK
 
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Thanks to you my friend. As always is a great pleasure to hear that news. I am very proud and happy with your words.
Skywalker Ranch, Wow...
 
10. Untwist cords and putting tarlatan.

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11. Gluing Endpapers.

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12. Preparing and ageing leather covers.

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13. Glue Cover and cut corners .

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Next post, finished grail diary :thumbsup
 
So here's, what I hope, is not a terrible question. Is there a resource of all of the items and pages for the grail diary compiled that one could use as a reference? I should be clear that I am not interested in printing it out and slapping it together, I want to hand draw and write it myself and only hope a fools dream that it looks even KIND OF like your masterpiece. But I'm just not able to see all of the details and make out the words on most of the pictures I search for so I can re-draw/write them. The handwriting in particular because my handwriting is TERRIBLE and I would basically need to "draw" each word...

The fact that you go as far as to bind the book yourself is truly inspiring. I need to do this for myself.

Thank you very much,

Rick
 
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