i'm really happy how the colour turned out.. it looks a tad greenish in most of the pics but that's because of the lighting (and flash)

i just pent some time with a knife scraping the binding clean.. i quite enjoyed that actually.. anywho.. here's a couple of pics

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this pic is a lot closer to the actual colour of both top and back.