Weldwood Gel?

Ah ok, it got my curiosity going. :) Nah, I dont think it would skew the results. Pressure does matter a little as the glue is known as a pressure sensitive material, I use my bone folder to set it. Just be careful not to over rub the surface of the leather and burnish it.
 
I use a hammer. I've specially dressed it so it's perfectly clean. It has instructions on the handle. In black sharpie it says Leather Only. I use this to tap all glued joints. If the leather is a little damp I use a piece of scrap in between to prevent any marks. Any joints done this way the leather fibers separate not the glue.
 
I've got an especially old hammer from my late roofer grandfather that rings like a bell when struck, its getting that treatment when I get the time! :) No better use for it, yea its a claw hammer but its a sweeeet hammer. :D
 
Right on. I use the dead blow to tap the joint. I've also just pressed it with my fingers and had good results that way. I may have hands like the rock giant in The Never Ending Story, but I figure the mallet is probably the best tool for the job. ;)
 
Rock Biter: They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were.
 
Judging my some of the kids these days, the nothing is doing quite well unfortunately. All that staring at cell phone screens is destroying their imagination. You should have seen the looks on their faces when I started showing some drawing techniques, that "oh!" response is priceless.

Charcoal is a magical substance that flows and moves like no video game ever could.
 
Good info here!
Thanks :)

Interesting that the barge thinner will thin rubber cement, but my rubber cement didn't thin my Wellwood red label.

Back in the day we used 2 coat rubber cement to do print mechanicals.
Then one coat. A blessing.
Along came spray mount… the devil's adhesive.
A decade before digital I discovered wax machines that put a coat of melted wax on the back of your type proofs and art.
It'd cool and stick, but still be somewhat removable.
All was good until a bunch of mechanicals sat in a client's trunk for the weekend.
In Dallas.
In the summer.
:eek:
 
Ebb, I'm glad you found it useful. :) What are mechanicals?

Dwayne... Yeah cell phones. I went to visit my sister recently, then went to visit my daughter and her fiance. Everyone kinda sat around in silence. Didn't occur to me when I was doing it (I'm doing it right now for crying out loud), but when you put it down and just observe everyone it's actually kind of spooky.

I gave up video games a few years ago. They were fun, but I've got responsibilities man! At least that's what I told myself. I've been bored ever since. :D

No seriously, those things will rot your brain. Life's good taking care of the family, riding my scooter and cutting and sewing cow. ;)
 
Mechanicals were the way print ads, packaging, album covers, magazines, newspapers, etc were created and prepared for the printer.
You'd glue all the pieces on a board, typography, art & logos.
Then it would be photographed. The film would be used to create the printing plates for each color.
The plates would go in the press and the press would print the actual pieces.
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It was all so much better before computers.
You had specialists at every stop of the production way.
Now anyone with a laptop and photoshop is a graphic designer :p

Apologies for the drift…

Too much glue fumes thru the years ;)
 
No, I like drifts. :)

I enrolled in a graphic design program at a school that specialized in the field around 15 years ago (can't believe it's been that long!), but I ended up not being able to move at the time. I think it was mostly computerized then but I'm sure they would have gone over the earlier way of doing things.

I've always thought that GD/advertising would be fun and interesting.
 
Yea, the graphic design program I started with had nothing to do with computers, I am so happy to this day that I changed over to Fine Art. Would you believe that it was at Texas Tech, AND in the early 90's when it should have been so deep in computers that it would have had not that much to do with hand design. I am told that soon after I dropped the curriculum, a few years later they adopted computer design. I wasted two semesters of classes getting frustrated with the lack of digital design.
 
As much as I miss the BC days of advertising, I don't miss my 000 Rapidographs.
Super fine point technical drawing pens.
One red, one (non repro) blue and one black.
Felt like I spent a good part of my life unclogging and maintaining them lol
 
Early 90's? Wasn't that around the time of 486's? I don't recall much art software back then (baring Paint), but maybe it was just Microsoft. I have no idea what was going on with Apple back then, but I do remember odd aspect ratio monitors.
 
Ebbtide said:
As much as I miss the BC days of advertising, I don't miss my 000 Rapidographs.
Super fine point technical drawing pens.
One red, one (non repro) blue and one black.
Felt like I spent a good part of my life unclogging and maintaining them lol
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Oooh! Rapidograph! I still have quite a few, and yes they are a bear when it comes to cleaning them. I am about to start using them again for my artwork and need to get more cleaning fluid and that nifty bulb thing that really made it easy to clean the really fine points. Mine is a bit old now and hardening. I have a love/hate relationship with my Rapidographs. The new toss away technical pens are much easier to deal with but I spent so much on my permanent pens.
Strigamort said:
Early 90's? Wasn't that around the time of 486's? I don't recall much art software back then (baring Paint), but maybe it was just Microsoft. I have no idea what was going on with Apple back then, but I do remember odd aspect ratio monitors.
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Apple was well into the graphic business by the time I went back into college but most art programs were woefully under funded and under staffed in technical personnel. It was a bad time to be where I was, the computer science department had all the cool tools. ;) But, I do remember sitting in awe at a photograph being uploaded on a friends monstrous tower computer line by line. It took over five minutes and we were enthralled the whole time by the resolution. :p Now my phone has more computing power than that three thousand dollar monster.
 
Ooooh I'd forgotten about the line by line loading. We've come a loooong way, you ain't kiddin'. :)

Rapidograph okay, I'm off to look for these. They sound like my kind of pita. :)
 
Before computers, if you wanted a line, you drew a line.
Striggy, if you want to have some real fun ;) get your self an old school ruling pen.

http://www.comic-tools.com/2009/03/this-week-what-is-this-thing-and-what.html
Don't dip the pen like this guy does… use the eye dropper that comes with the ink ;)

LOL… I liked that so much more than the radiographs.
We drew it all, borders for photos, hand lettering, maps… you name it :)

Before Powerpoint, I did the presentation materials with colored markers on 18x24" pads.
Showcard lettering...
No spelling errors, no mistakes, no cross outs allowed.
The sheets from the pad were then rubber cemented to foam board for the meeting.
20-30 at a time.

Layouts, conceptual layouts, were done in marker as well. The guys I worked with could do color marker renderings that looked like paintings.
They'd spend a couple hours on it and then it'd get rubber cemented to the foam board. Or built into a book...
The layout paper was thin like tracing paper but a little whiter and a little more opaque.
You got one chance. If it had a wrinkle you were toast. If you tried to lift it, it would tear. If you tried to use rubber cement thinner to break the bond, the marker would run.

Now?
"Hit print again, will ya?"
lol
 
I still have my ruling pen! It was required for my curriculum and fining one I could afford yet was of decent quality was a real trick. I think mine is Rotring. I'll have to look now, its in my art box. I wonder if I still have that compass with the ruling pen attachment?

Those things can make wonderful lines like no other pen.
 
That's really neat! My sisters friend is a professional comic artist. I wonder if he ever uses these types of tools. Obviously he does his work digitally, but he's a fantastic artist that I was always in awe of when I was in High School. He also had the most amazing collection of Robotech models and figures.

I looked up the drafting pens on ebay. Most are used and dirty, some are like brand new, but they are all fairly priced. :)
 
Oh, and I get my 12" cork backed rules at HF. I know Incra's are very good, but the HF (cen-tech I think is the brand) aren't bad for a couple of bucks. :)
 
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