My Miquelrius Journal - With Leather Cover I Made
Submitted by DigitalAlan on Wed, 2006-01-25 21:25.
Well - I finally posted my Journal Notebook - I use the Miquelrius Notebook - Which I love by the way. I love the graph paper and the paper is nice quality. The Journal Opens up pretty Flat and When I use my noodlers ink I don't have any bleed thru on the pages.
Here is my blog entry on Merlins Tower about this journal and link to the photos showing how I made it.
http://www.merlinstower.com/?p=27
Miquelrius Journal - New Images
How you all enjoy
Alan
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Very impressive
Very impressive craftsmanship Alan.
I like the tie-binding you chose. I couldn't really tell if the leather was stiched on the flaps, or just glued. What weight of leather did you use? It looks pretty heavy.
Thanks - The leather was
Thanks - The leather was stitched - I pre poked (using an Awl) all the holes around the edge. I didn't use any glue on this project.
This is the tool I used to stitch it.
http://www.tandyleather.com/prodinfo.asp?number=121600&varia...
I believe this was 4oz Weight. I am not an expert in leather types as this was just a scrap piece I found at the Tandy Leather store and this was my very fist project.
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Very nice leather cover
It reminds me of a fly-fishing kit of my late father's, a leather-wrapped "book" containing pages of felt-like material for holding his flies. I'm not a fly fisherman, but I love this little piece of gear. I was thinking about how neat it would be to actually make a cover like that for a journal.
And there it is! Great job, Alan. I like it.
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It was alot of fun to do
It was alot of fun to do this - I planned more then the actual time it took to make. I would say the whole process took me from Cutting out the leather to completing the stiching was about 5 hours. It was alot of fun to do and really does a great job protecting the journal.
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Great job
This is just great! It's a pity that some of your FlickrFotos aren't sharp enough to read everything in detail.
Can anybody tell me where to get those Miquelrius books in Germany?
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I don't know what happened
I don't know what happened with the photos They all look double exposed - I will be taking a few better ones and I will try to get some more detail on the stitching. And try to get better photos from the pages as well. I am not sure what happened there.
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Miquelrius books in Germany
Jester, did anyone ever get back to you on that? I live in Germany too and would like to get hold of some.
New Set of Photos Uploded and linked.
Everyone Thanks for the Comments and I just finished another round of photos with better resolution - Here is the link to my blog for the info.
http://www.merlinstower.com/?p=42
Feel Free to comment or ask questions.
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