Leather bound books, lab notebooks, adventure journals, photo albums, etc

[volivaa]

I’ve been fascinated with making leather bound books of all types. I know it has been explored a little bit here Refillable Leather Journal - #4 by morganstanfield
and here
Leather Sketchbook

I would like to be able to use them in capturing my research data in one place. A laboratory notebook has so many additional items stuffed into it like analysis charts, chromatograms, etc and it would be nice if I could engrave this info in the inside of the notebook and archive the loose data elsewhere. Then I could customize the outside to look cool and reflect some aspect of the research. I have attached a few images of books to get your creative juices flowing.

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[volivaa]

Another few…

[Zerbyte]

That is exactly the kind of things I want to do. Hope I don’t kill my filter too fast burning all the leather.

[morganstanfield]

Yep. Keep in mind, too, that you don’t have to laser the leather directly. Make some delrin stamps, run your damp veg tan and the stamp through a press, and you can do some amazing embossing.

[Drea]

This artist creates some incredible leather books. Some of his(?) pieces are quite dark, but even if they’re not your style, the workmanship is impeccable and inspiring: http://www.alexlibris-bookart.com

[volivaa]

The steam punk gas mask is cool.

[pomwah]

@morganstanfield

Make some delrin stamps, run your damp veg tan and the stamp through a press

I wonder if acrylic would work as an embossing die? Be a lot cheaper than Delrin/acetal.

[lcuellar63]

I had actually been considering how to do a cover remake for 3 ring binders, which can be picked up cheaply.

[morganstanfield]

It would be worth trying, but I’m guessing it would be too fragile for most presses to not break. Nice that you could at least flame-polish the finish, though.