Loving your clamshell skills! I think it would be quite fun if you wanted to share your process at some point, if you feel up to it.

Urulókë wrote:

Loving your clamshell skills! I think it would be quite fun if you wanted to share your process at some point, if you feel up to it.

Yeah, I'll do some photos next time I do an interesting one. I've revised my methods quite a bit as I've learned what I am doing. Still seems to take me ages if I don't want to cock it up, though!

Another piece of practice junk. Working on skills refinement so I can set up a side-business making these kinds of things at some point. Planning on doing quite a few in quick succession as I think I need a decent cadence.

It's beautiful Stu. Particularly like the Silver stamping on the Haggerty Marquette logo.

It is amazing Stu! :)

Thanks, Emilien and Lokki

Love it! Quick question on the photos, might just be when they were taken. It looks like in some pics there is a green band on the front, and in others there isn't (maybe not added yet)?

Urulókë wrote:

Love it! Quick question on the photos, might just be when they were taken. It looks like in some pics there is a green band on the front, and in others there isn't (maybe not added yet)?

Just the shadow/poor lighting in the couple of laid-flat pictures. My office is not as well lit as I would like. I have a moveable LED light band over my work area, but it doesn't really cut it for photography.

The green band was added before the outer casing was glued to the upper and lower boxes (as it has to fold inside and under). The green band was actually mainly due to the limitations of the white cloth. The bleed-through is really bad on that cloth, so the boards underneath need to be 100% white (I painted them with acrylic). Where the cloth overlaps the quarter-binding (which is black), I basically could have glued some white paper over the black (before then overlaying the white cloth) or put something over the top of the overlap to disguise it. I ended up doing the latter, as I had some suitable green cloth -- and I figured it made it a bit more interesting visually. A third option would have been to put the white cloth on the boards first and then run the black over the top. Not really any right or wrong ways with this - is all just about throwing mud at the wall and seeing what sticks, tbh.

This sat for weeks with the inner box made and all the parts made and painted, because I couldn't decide how to proceed. In the end I just said "screw it" and whacked it all together to get it out of the way!

1971 BCA "red state" clam

Rayon spine, cotton everything else (except inner bases of trays, which are textured acid-free card -- as I am out of grey cloth). Front stencilling in acrylic, spine text printed.

Gorgeous !