Okay, I recently got a 1978 world book from a teacher at the school I work part time at.
(here is why she gave it to me, )
she replaced it with a 1982 book)
Its leather-bound so i thought what the heck I'm making a river song book out of this.
I painted the book with about 13 layers in different shades of blue so i could carve the squares in. The pages were originally gold edged but I painted them brown and yellow to make them look old and not shiny.





~Aliza~

Really nice work Aliza. There's something really special about old paper

Quote from: rassilonsrod on Feb 14, 2011, 04:46 am
There's something really special about old paper

Yeah... it makes people like me feel young!

And I love that cover! (Not to mention the look of the book.)

Trivia time: my mother used to sell the World Book Encyclopedia back in the early '70s. I don't know if we've still got that first set we got once she started selling them, but the last time I saw them was in the mid '90s and they were still in good shape.

Dino.

Nice book there, you could probaly even use it to study for Jeopardy. (Anyone know if the guy faced the computer already)

Nice, I've often thought about making a replica of that book.
I held the actual book (or one of the actual books) when a certain Mr Ed Thomas came to do a talk at our university, and brought a few things to show with him, I'll create a new thread in a moment about it. Don't know why I haven't shared this before! Was over a year ago!