They look awesome. Congrats to all those getting them.
Here is a question for the people getting them. One type of grate did you get. It looks like you had two choices. One that looks new, and one that looks older with rust. Just curious.
OK. Just wondering. I won't have either so you guys are ahead of the game already.
I've never been so excited for a book's arrival.
Don't tell anyone but I actually don't own a first printing of IT but soon I will own one of the coolest first printings of IT on the planet.
No choice. Paul makes most of the design choices with input from the artisans. The idea was for the grate to look like it might actually be out in the street. The artisan aged the grate to the desired effect. There's a video of her pouring a grate. From the DragonRebound.com site:
"The book enclosure and lid design are based on a literal depiction of the original cover illustration for “IT”, with the sewer grate covering the storm drain. The sewer grate becomes the lid to the box, which holds the book.
Each sewer grate is made by using traditional foundry processes to achieve a miniature version of the grate depicted on the original cover artwork. The first step is to design and generate a pattern, which is a positive duplicate of the cast iron version. The patterns are then used to build a two-part sand mold around, and each one is poured with 2600 degree molten iron. This replicates the look and feel of a traditional sewer grate. It is basically a miniature sewer grate.
Once the grates are cast, Alisa and the team will cut, grind, clean and patina each one so that they match the aesthetic of the cover illustration, as well as become suitable for usage as a clean lid to the metal box in which the custom-bound book is housed."
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
The holes in the drain even match the ones on the book too. The attention to detail is F(*#%'in unreal. If you are getting this book... BE VERY excited.
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Thanks Brian. I wasn't sure. I am sure this book will be epic. I agree, if you are getting this book, be very excited.
If anyone hasn't seen the teaser video, it's well worth watching. It shows grates being poured. I'm not sure if this is the video I remember of grates being poured or if there is another video.
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
Update from the binder for all y’all.
“My goal is to have the books completed by June 30th and ready to ship the following week. “
Awe man. That is so cool for you guys.
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
I just noticed that the paperweight came with little "feet". Did anybody actually use them? Does it scratch that easy?
What feet?? I got no feet.
Looking for Mister Slaughter S/L #78
Sticky rubber nodules, like this:
I also would recommend using the feet. My paperweight already had a few tiny scuffs on the bottom plane, fresh out of the box. So handle with care!
HBJ
Damn, you guys sure know how to make a collector panic, hahah. I was at the grocery store when I saw the post about the 'feet' and was picturing like a nifty little set of blood splattered clown feet or something that props up the paperweight, that I had overlooked and possibly thrown away when I received mine....panic! I rushed home to find that I had missed the little rubber nubs in the original packaging (that I of course hadn't thrown away ).
Looking for:
- Philtrum Press Eyes of the Dragon RED #165
- Fine Viking Eyes of the Dragon proof