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Making a RL Zamorak Book

tripsis

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I have embarked on a new book-related project! This one is going to be much more time consuming than my last two books, first of all because it's going to be more intricate, and second of all because it's going to be THICK (over 200 pages). So far here's what I'm thinking:

 

A red leather-bound book with "aged" pages. On the front cover, the leather will be engraved with the Zamorak symbol. On the corners of the book will be black metal corner protectors. I may add other engravings/decorations to the front cover, but I haven't decided. I might just want to keep it more simple. The book will have clasps (closures) to help keep the book closed, but mostly just for decorations. The inside pages will be dyed in tea/coffee to give them an aged look. I'm also thinking of actually writing in the book (just random Zamorak stuff - maybe his history/spell/armour and maybe the Zamorak God Letters). But if I'm terribly bored of this project by that point, I may not write in it.. but it would be epic if I did!

 

Progress So Far:

 

Time spent planning, looking for supplies and buying supplies: 2 hours

Time spent measuring/cutting/dyeing paper: 4 hours and counting (not even halfway done! D: )

 

I have to get all the paper dyed by tomorrow because I'm going back to university and it's not really realistic for me to do any dyeing there.

 

[hide=Photos]Cutting Paper

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Dyeing Paper in Tea

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Paper Drying

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I have enough supplies to get the signature block done and I have the rest of the supplies (leather, claps, etc.) on order!

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Blutters

Yay! HAIL ZAMORAK!

 

... Only supposed to have 4 pages though.

 

Did you decide which way to put the symbol?

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tripsis

Yay! HAIL ZAMORAK!

 

... Only supposed to have 4 pages though.

 

Did you decide which way to put the symbol?

Yeah I know but this book is more epic than the one in-game!! And I decided to do the "W" way, I think :)

 

Thanks for the luck Warriormonkx! I think I might need it :lol:

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Rien

Haha, I think I might be a bit jealous of your creativity and artistic ability. :lol:

 

'Have fun with it. :)

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tripsis

Thanks for the support, you two! :)

 

I got like 27/30 signatures* done.. and I just said "screw it" to the rest because it's now 2am and I'm tired :( So it looks like my book will only be about 216 pages, but that's alright. It's off to university tomorrow and I may not get much - if anything - done tomorrow since I have some work to do. But the next step is sewing the pages together. Oh and hopefully they will have all dried by the morning... and reasonably flat too (a few wrinkles might be cool).

 

* Each signature has 4 pieces of paper which will be folded in half, thus creating 8 pages in a book.

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