• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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Woodbloke said:
Fifty years ago, a long departed girl friend gave me for my birthday a first edition of the late Freddy Forsyth's little novela, 'The Shepherd' now made into a short film with John Travolta as the phantom Mosquito pilot. I had some decent quality thick, bright red, paper so I firstly made a dust jacket for the little book:

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...and then made a slip cover for it:

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Making a slip cover for a hardback book sounds easy peasy, but it's not, it's bloody 'ard. There are loads of quite good videos on UToob but I eventually decided to follow the instructions from DAS Bookbinding. There aren't many tools needed except for a very sharp craft knife with snap off blades, a cutting mat and steel rules. I used 2.5mm thick acid free backing board from my favourite picture framer in Salisbury and some off cuts of the thick Ferrari red paper for the top, bottom and spine of the slip cover. The diamond pattern paper on the faces is an offcut of Japanese hand printed Washi paper from Shepherds in London, very close to Victoria Station. It's one of SWIMBO's most favourite shops in Londres with all sorts of beautiful, hand printed Japanese and Italian (to name two) papers as well as all the kit and equipment needed for bookbinding.

Freddy Forsyth's little novella is actually a ghost story (based on his time as a pilot in the RAF) and should be read every Christmas Eve along with 'A Christmas Carol', best accompanied by a couple of wee tinctures of the finest malt - Rob
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That doesn’t look easy to make at all! I thought the ends were a wood profile at first. Mitred cardboard?
 
Cabinetman said:
That doesn’t look easy to make at all! I thought the ends were a wood profile at first. Mitred cardboard?
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Thanks Ian. No, the cardboard isn't mitred but the red paper on the corners is cut at 45deg to wrap around:

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....and then tuck inside the slip case. One of the reasons why you absolutely need an über sharp knife; I bought the one linked to and it comes highly recommended, as my left index finger will testify! - Rob
 
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