I’m finding this visual record keeping of my progress to be really helpful. It’s so easy to lose track of everything one does, and I hope this will give me a good sense of what a project like this required should I think about it in the future.
So, yesterday I covered the exterior edges and the vertical and horizontal divisions with black cloth. It wasn’t that difficult, but it was very tedious. Each of the shelves is covered individually.
I lined the outer doors.
I picked up the book from the bindery. I was disappointed for reasons that I won’t go into here. But it’s done and lessons were learned. It proved to be a useful reference for following stages of the project.
I mixed up some marbling size out of methycellulose, ammonia and vinegar. Thank goodness it seemed to turn out right – my previous attempts (which I’ve been using as adhesive) are just lumps of goo like something out of Ghostbusters.
I treated some paper with alum (no pix of that, sorry) and hung it on the clothesline in the basement.
I cut bases and fronts for all the drawers – keeping in mind their eventual contents. Each base and front was individually fitted to its home to account for screwiness. The bases are all about the same depth, except for two that had to accommodate extra long contents. This was also pretty darn tedious work. If you look closely you’ll see the first set of inner door hinges, too.
As a break from measuring and cutting, I mucked about with testing liquid acrylics on the marbling size in a tiny tupperware container. I achieved interesting, but not very promising results.
I made a marbling comb out of toothpicks.
I burned out and went to sleep.
