I Made a GIGANTIC Leatherbound Spellbook 

imagine writing the family recipes there and passing a giant book through generations

A giant spell book really just needs... a giant spell book stand!

Listen, that right there is a family heirloom. This is the book where you draw up the plans for the projects you do on the channel (or for personal.) Then each project is immortalized in the massive "Nerdforge Sacred Tome" which becomes a history of your works done. Also, the first project you design in it should be the pedestal that it will stand on, so that you have something that makes it easy to move around and write in.

Send it from Art RU-vidr to Art RU-vidr and have each draw a page of the book. Imagine a gigantic collection of various artitsts condensed into one, thumpy boi, book.

Dude, you should do it a collective artist piece. Ask a bunch of artist to paint a double page with a theme, sorcery or someting like that. It would ve awosme to fill those huge pages!!

I just love that Martina said she might use the glove in the future, then went on using it in every project since then. It just melts my heart that she could create something so awesome, that actually helps her create such amazing things as this epic book 💜

I love seeing Martina use her cyborg glove in all these new projects!

You could always use this book as a memoir of sorts of your projects . Like the left page have your sketches or blue prints and on the right page have pictures of the project 🤷🏻‍♀️

Martina: Awesome! Hansi: Awesome. Fans: So Awesome!! Book: THUMP! Nori: [The ground! It’s shaking! Must save humans!]

If weight weren't an issue, it would be cool to have different artists around the world painting or illustrating a spread, writing a 2-page story or short graphic comic✨

This book would be perfect for a massive art collab. Send it to artists all over the world, who then each get a page, and auction it off for charity afterwards, or something like that.

Just need a pedestal that matches your wizard room for your book. Fill it as a Journal of your projects with sketches, or family recipes, or pictures but as pencil sketches, or any visiting b artist put their own personal sketch in and sign it. Whatever you do, it's gorgeous

I think it would be interesting to draw all the projects that were made in the channel, like one page per project, hopefully one day the book will be filled :D

OMG Martina needs to fill this with giant paintings! Sketch book pt 2! (Maybe give yourself a bit more time this go though!)💜

I can imagine seeing all kinds of fantasy plants/rocks/animals/cities and maps discovered in such a book, simply a huge chronicle of everything that can be found in the magical world. And all this on a huge pedestal, ideally with LED lighting. As for the spellbook, then with everything.

I need a book like this with the label being ''the book of grudges'' written on the cover.

I would love to see you make an entire series making a fantasy world in that book. Like adding creature details, spells, details on places like haunted woods etc

It would be very nice if Martina would make her incredible paintings in every single page and maybe write a story over the paintings.🥰

The book must be called "The Millenary Book" and must be passed from artist to artist to be drawn. Imagine a fantasy book with over hundreds of different arts by different artists. Simply EPIC.

This book HAS to be your Grimoire! A page for each of the projects you've worked on, with personal notes and lessons you learnt!

I know it would take a lot of time, but what if you made it into a fantastical spellbook or alchemist's journal? Complete with sketches of ingredients or drawings of spell circles surrounded by notes and observational paintings of magic, gems, finished potions - whatever!

Fun fact- paper quilling is a hobby that was born out of finding a use for all those paper edge bits that come from book marking. Paper quilling is also super pretty

Turn the book into a Nerdforge encyclopedia!! 😃 Put in stuff about your past projects, but do it in a way to make the book feel like a photo album i.e. make the book fun to scroll through ✨✨✨

A giant spell book needs a giant edge water painting 🖌️😁

just imagining a giant wizard book with monster anatomy and facts with spells and lore, location art and things would be amazing. adding in text scrawl from little tips about the creature or useful information about something found in a location would make an amazing small series (collaboration with different artists would be amazing). [slight inspiration from the greatest art collaboration video] have fun Martina and Hansi. :D

You should make a series where you try to fill in all the wizard tomes and spell books you've made with paintings and scripts with runes, ect. Maybe you could even make a journal or a recipe book, or just for tips that you have learned through your journey.

It would be amazing if this book roamed from artist to artist and each one fill 1 page with story writen/drawn. The end result would be amazing and unique

I love when the glove comes out like "Gonna need all 10 for this particular task"

I love seeing Hanzi in a video. Reminds me of the old days. They’re both so good at what they do. It’s nice to see them work together on camera.

I love how you use the book press on top of the coffee table to make sure it feels included 😊

I just love how much goofier and therefore more genuine feeling Marina became throughout the years. She eased into the online personality role and I love her to bits for it!

You could do a really detailed and intricate book of written spells and potions with ingredients, like a grimorium, it would be really incredible!

It would be really cool to see someone in the calligraphy community put some spells or potion making instructions into it!

I just love how comfortable Hansi got in front of the camera! Way back when he still seemed so shy! and I think it's needless to say how awesome this project came out

Imagine having this as a guest book at the entrance of your door! Or at a wedding where all the guests can write greetings and well-wishes to the couple!

For the trimming of book edges actual bookbinders use press/guillotine combo. The traditional (hand-operated) machine takes half a room of space, there is a huge flywheel which you turn to drop the blade down on the immobilized tome.

A spell book this size would be super great for a scrapbook of all your adventures and collections. Kind of like what our famous wizards had. Beautiful drawings as well especially bc they could be so highly detailed and kept collectively all in one place.

Not gonna lie, each page in the spellbook seems big enough for an entire painting If you wanted to make things even harder for yourself you could attempt to fill every page with paintings

Really glad that anytime I start to think I'm crafting ridiculous things, Martina and Hansi come along to remind me I'm right in my lane.

This should be the adventurer’s guild book of everything where parties add the creatures they encounter with illustrations, magic items they found, dungeons they explored and spells and potions they created. Throughout the book there could be different entries from different characters and you see the sorts of things that inspire them. One could be a scatter brained fey witch who comes up with all sorts of creative potions though many are failures or have unintended consequences much to the horror of the alchemist who also contributes to the book. The Warlock and The Paladin are having an argument throughout the book about their respective patrons and adding comments to the other’s entries. The Bard reveals they both secretly love the other but their viewpoints are getting in the way of that. The wizard has added a list of their spells and some of their own arcane creations as he tries to educate the reader by adding annotations and comments to clarify things.

Ok I've been mulling this over for a full day now and I have an EPIC idea for the THICCBOI book. It definitely gives giant spellbook vibes so why not not lean into that and make it a Grimoire? STAY WITH ME .. I promise that's not the epic part. So you give it the Grimoire aesthetic but instead of spells, potions, charms, and talismans you use it to document your most epic projects. Like including past ones. All your favorites projects and maybe ours too. 😆 But you document then spell/recipe style and list steps and materials and maybe include little margin notes or material scraps to add to the aesthetic. So it'd be like a Nerdforge how-to scrapbook that looks like a giant EPIC Grimoire. It'd be badass. And then yes you need to make it an awesome podium to sit on at all times because a book that size really does need a good place to sit and be admired. A book throne if you will.

I’ve had an idea for awhile now about a “similarly gargantuan sized book” but to make it as a sort of family heirloom journal that gets passed down through the generations and family reunions where everyone can write in… Like just imagine having a family journal that size on a book stand that can chronicle personal histories of a family for however many generations that the size of those pages can last for!!!

That's the kind of book that lives on a podium in the wizard's library and is either the index for the entire library or the family grimoire that just... never leaves it's podium. I love it so much.

Wow, so my grandfather actually passed down three "massive chunkyboi" books from the 1930s (size A3, the books are collections of newspapers in more or less full form from 1930-1933) It's amazing seeing how such a book is made. Mine are not in such a good condition as yours though. Mine were stitched on the side and only included "a cover" on the front and back, not on the side; that part is purely held together by threats (it's not in a bad state, it's just that they made the cover of the side purely by stitching).

A book of that prominence must have a dedicated stand for it. Beautiful work you guys!

I could see you doing epic drawings in that book, magical places, mythical plants, maybe do some writting about the place or plants you do in them. Make it like a field journal for a wizard of your fantasy. Could be stuff that was already in books you love like the Potter series or just your own made up things. I want to see your own takes on mythical things myself but you can do whatever you feel like doing in it.

Two minutes in and it's like watching a fairy sized human make a book. This is great.

man, i really just wanna see those pages filled with spells, research on magical creatures and plants etc. would be so cool! 🤩

Okay this is probably my favourite project so far! You could fill it with paintings you do or make it like a compendium of all your projects over the years! That'd be epic!

I was just about to sit down and write my novel but Nerdforge comes first. The book is amazing! Since it's a giant book with a lot of room to play with, you could do a calligraphy series where you take your favorite passages from books and intertwine them with illustrations kinda like those big medieval books with the giant letters starting out the first word.

You should use the book as a giant sketch book for your projects and just draw all the concept art on them! It could be like a giant history of all the cool stuff you’ve made.

Imagine writing every single comebacks and swears you have ever heard of and can think of, then passing it down to future generations so that they can do the same

4:00 i literally thought for a second i watch GoodTimesWithScar , that music is everytime he makes superfast-build-mode so i do connect it with him XD

Your new sketch book is EPIC, Martina! You could hand letter your own manuscript, make a family cookbook/potions book, write your life story or your family history.... Lots of options!

I just love how Martina always complains about how hard its gonna be but then knocks it out of the Park. Amazing dedication and craftsmanship with some funky wave beats in the background. Keep it up guys. You the best 💓

Build a sturdy stand for it, display it on your table and use it for your blueprints/ or since you used art paper. Use it as an artbook

You should paint the sides of your spell book like you’ve done before on other books. It would make it extra magical lol I love it tho, it’s absolutely beautiful and the craftsmanship is amazing! 🤩

I just had an idea as Martina carried the finished book at 19:55 of her in costume, bringing this book out to a table with a group of adventurers (or their brainy members anyway) going through tomes for information on something, dragons for instance; Martina arrives at the table, drops the tome, wipes her brow, takes a deep breath...... "Oh, thank you, but we don't need that book anymore. We found what we needed." Martina hefts the book with a scowl, wanders off to put it back in safe storage, grumbling. Hmmm, maybe Joe Manganiello or Wizards of the Coast will see this and add it to their next D&D project. I know Joe is making a D&D documentary; but I recall him saying he wanted to make more D&D movies; a TV show with a recurring role for this super tome would be cool.

LOVE seeing way more of Hansi being as quirky and adorable as Martina. Totes adorbs you two!

A gorgeous giant book really just needs.... well you know... writing? It absolutely needs to have a story written in those incredible pages!!

I love love love the end result. 1. How much does it weigh? 2. What if you did some crazy huge drawing/painting challenge? Or 3. What if you did a detailed picture that is layered and carved into the whole text block, so that if you look at all the pages together it makes one awesome scene.

Very cool. Could this be the start of a giant youtube collab where the book is passed around to other artists to fill? Would be epic. If a bit costly in postage lol.

We don't see Hansi on the channel nearly as much as Martina but every time he does show up I'm reminded just how well his energy compliments Martina's. There's a mutual chaotic vibe between them that works really well lol.

OMG! A huge family Holy Bible this size would be epic and would be a true blessing to pass down through the generations of the family!

You could totally do a year-long series where you paint/illustrate something new in the book every week . Though I understand that it would take a ton of time and effort.

Now you need a big podium for it so you can look like an epic wizard with your spell book

Martina looks like a wizard‘s apprentice who’s gettin the big heavy dusty tome from the highest shelf in the library 😊

You should invest in some Pipe Clamps or build some custom C-Clamps for all those projects you need a little more reach on your clamps for. Also Wooden C-Clamps can be pretty fun to make, would be plenty durable for most tasks, and require no welding. Also you will definitely want some kind of corner bracing for them. I used copper pipe i hammered flat Just remember every hole you drill is a new weak point in the wood. If you wanted to go for more permanent then epoxy infused wood would be a great material and you could make them more decorative.

it would be awesome to fill the book with stories about the projects you guys make, but told as a fairy tale of the two best craftsmen in the land :). you guys make the most stunning projects!!!

well, can't blame Martina for caring about the ✨️aesthetic✨️ she really knows how to make things look cool

Now you need a spellbook pedestal for the book. As for what to put in the book, I would love to see you put your artwork in the book.

Fill it up with whatever is on your mind. Pick a portion of a page and sketch something, next to it, write something, under that, plan something it's a one of a kind book. Make it even more legendary.

What I love about you guys is that whenever you get the hankering to make something happen, you just do it! It takes time, a LOT of effort, and a whole lot of love, but you get such a beautiful piece in the end! And it never fails to amaze! That being said, you have a giant spellbook, you made a giant wizard's tower, soooo...wouldn't now be an okay time to come up with some spells and potions, concoctions, if you will? Maybe some maps or ingredients lists and the like? You could totally get into the whole calligraphy bit and make it all fancy, maybe even stain the pages a bit to make them look weathered and aged! Or, oooooooh, make up your own fantasy realm and make spells and potions for that place!

All I can imagine is a barbarian arriving to a school of magic and seeing incredibly swole wizards, and being super confused, until he sees that all their books look like this.

So freaking cool! I think it would be perfect for a project journal. A massive collection of concept ideas, evolutions and final results. An artistic homage to Davinci's notebook.

You should use it to make a retelling of all your projects : a double page for each, with drawing of the final result, diagrams and step by step explainations. You can make a video out of catching up to now, and keep adding to it as you forge create new things

Definitely think this should be turned into an actual giant spell book/ horticulture book. I'm also surprised you didn't stain the paper! (I mean, I know it's huge paper, but an ancient spell book should have nicely worn pages) ❤

I love that we got more Hansi in this video! Hansi's personality is so fun! ^-^

This could probably be the sketchbook you paint in for the next 20 years, and you'd still have space left over

You should build a grand easel for the book! One that can hold the book in any orientation so you can do your most epic paintings in the most epic book.

The binding style you're talking about at 7:00 is called library binding. It has fallen out of style but it is so beautiful.

How about another sketchbook filling challenge? Where you fill all the pages with an illustration, or maybe you can take pictures of your former projects and use this HUGE thing as a scrapbook of art memories! Hope you had a good vacation! Looking forward to seeing your next Amazing project!

I adore how you go above and beyond with everything you do. Instead of just making a book... you made a freaking BOOK haha

Turn it into a giant recipe book for your crafts, so every time you make a craft or something, you could put step-by step instructions on how you made the thing, and you'll never run out of creative ideas again. so like a secret recipe book for your artistic endeavors. Not only will it serve as a comprehensive guide for your crafts, but it will also become a treasured collection of your unique creations, ready to be shared with others who seek inspiration. With this secret recipe book, your creativity will know no bounds as you continue to explore new horizons in the world of crafting.

This book deserves to be a fully illuminated text, Nerdforge style.

With a canvas that big. You GOT to paint the page edges

As it is a wizard's tome, I imagine collecting spells, recipes, and musings from your favorite works of media would be a fun project! Basically making it an anthology of all those awesome mages and characters quirks in one massive collection

Martina, you're so crazy in art and I absolutely LOVE IT❤❤❤ Even more satisfying is that Hansi's got just the same chaotic vibe😃

Iwas like, "wait, why isn't she using the book press?" and then she put the press on top and i saw the RIDICULOUS SCALE the paper is at and just, "oh...."

I want to see the build of a fitting pedestal for this book. An giant, magical altar.

Honestly I don't even care what specifically Martina creates I just love her goofiness, honesty about the difficulties and frustrations of projects and positivity

I would honestly use it as an art book.. doing a different painting for each page. Maybe writing some poems, memories, short stories in between

The stuff you guys make is so cool, i could easily see this becoming a photo album for your past and future projects!!

I love this! Maybe you could fashion a big stand for it, and put pictures of your projects in there with dates so it becomes like one of those ancient record books?

I would love to see you make handmade paper with all the scraps from the floor! That being said, this tome is epic. Family stories and recipes would be my suggestion

Great for writing family history. If only I was good at calligraphy! I'm going to print my family history book and then bind it like this with my family's emblem as the centre piece. I certainly have the content to fill out this book and more, but I can successfully make it like this is another matter. I haven't seen anybody done this yet, and this is what I've been looking for for years. Thanks

I like that the stamping in the lining looks imperfect, it makes the book look naturally weathered over time, the tome came out amazing as usual! Great job Martina & Hansi also i love the idea of martina sitting at her desk and one day deciding she needs to make a massive book almost the size of herself, just so she can THUMP on the table haha

Expanding on the recipes ideas, I was thinking how some family books / records weren’t just one thing. They were a culmination of recipes, family stories, genealogical records, etc. With the size of the leaves, you could probably do one page per year or so, leaving some number of leaves at the front for a table of contents and other front material. That, my friend, will be quite a family tome and history.

Love the end result! >I would actually turn it into a kind of a collection of fantasy stuff, like dividing it into several parts (creatures, races -dwarfs elven...-, flora, architecture...) and pencil draw each one (1 per page) so it creates kind of a dictionnaire of a fantasy world (idk if you can even comprehend what I'm trying to say lmao) but that would be so cool, like the book with all the dragon types in How to train your dragon!

Loving all the ideas I've read so far. Too many to keep reading, but imagine this with all your family photos, aged up to look vintage, and laid out scrapbook style inside. What an amazing product to pass down through the generations. Hand made and full of personal photos.