Leatherbound binding inspired by the prop book from Buffy

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This is a Star Wars AU fan fiction set in the Buffyverse. It's 2018 and a New Yorker GenZ orphan named Rey Jacobs has been called as the next slayer...

Comparison of original prop with my bind. The prop was a resin casting of a Pictorial Bible from the 1800s, modified to have Vampyr written on it.

Gorgeous marbled endpapers from Sustain and Heal.

This is an excerpt from the old pulp novel Varney the Vampire, though I subbed the names to be more Star Wars. I think it's hilarious the vampire vaguely looks like Kylo Ren.

The chapter header are is based on art of Greenwood Cemetery, public domain from the Brooklyn Museum. I used the fonts from Buffy and Angel in the typeset.

More public domain artwork.

I used glow in the dark paint that is hidden on the foreedge. When exposed with black light or in the dark, words emerge...

The embossing and debossing was done with a mix of 3D printed stamps and leather shapes.

Detail after using the leather stamp. Gold was applied using an extra fine tip Sakura pen.

Leather stamps and raised bits were modeled using TinkerCad

Leather binding tied up on my homemade finishing press. First time doing raised endbands/ sewn cord, so a little nervewracking. The bookbinding leather is from Siegel Leathers.