My friend Eleonora Rebecchi has designed several covers for my short ebooks, including the entire The Swordsman's Quick Guide series, and my Swords in the Time of Corona.
So it seemed apt to me to show her that I can make book covers too!
And I thought that putting her initials on the cover, in blue sparkly resin, would bring it to the next level 🙂
I started by routing out the initials, freehand with a router:
Then filled in the groove with the resin:
I then cut the covers off the main board. This is American Black walnut.
Now for the text block: very straightforward.
Cutting the stitching holes:
I kettle-stitched the whole thing together, then glued up the spine with some mull.
The walnut wasn't quite wide enough for what I had in mind, so I added a decorative strip of ash, and planed everything down and to size:
I did a classic assembly, gluing the covers to the leather for the spine.
Then cased in the book in one go, which fortunately worked quite well!
The finish is a few light coats of french polish, applied with a rubber (how else?).
I think it turned out ok, but I'd be the first to admit that Eleonora's covers are prettier than mine!
