{"id":104,"date":"2011-09-10T11:56:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T11:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/?p=104"},"modified":"2015-01-09T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:29:18","slug":"ipad-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"iPad case"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Alex’s 29th birthday, all of her friends got together to buy her an ipad. I made a case for it which included each friend’s name.<\/p>\n

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You can see the soot on the wood here. The initial coat or two of finish mean that that can be wiped off easily.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Completed frame.<\/p><\/div>\n

I unfortunately don’t have a photo of the completed object. I finished it on the bus on the way to Toronto… It was similar to a Dodo<\/a> case. I used techniques I learned doing bookbinding to make the outer case: bookboard covered with leatherette on the outside and some beautiful handmade paper on the inside. An elastic glued inside the case to hold it shut. Instead of using precision cut rubber to hold the ipad in place (the dodo technique) I used two or four pieces of elastic across the corners.<\/p>\n

Things I learned:<\/p>\n