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kimg57•1d ago

Question about the time I had to pick between two cover materials and picked wrong, obviously

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noah880•1d ago

Dropped $310 on a used board shear at an estate sale, now I'm torn on whether it was a bust

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wade_perez•2d ago

A customer at my table in Tucson said she judges a book by how it falls open, and now I test every spine twice

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terryallen•3d ago

Tried pressing signatures with wax paper instead of my usual release board, 9 out of 10 came out clean

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janab82•3d ago

Picked waxed linen thread over synthetic for my first coptic stitch journal and now I'm second guessing myself

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the_sean•5d ago

Spent 3 years pressing my signatures with a bone folder and a phone book, then a 78 year old binder in Portland set me straight

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paul_owens25•9d ago

Rant: I rebound my grandma's 1962 cookbook last April, and the before and after still cracks me up

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wright.kevin•11d ago

I cut a coffee stirrer in half to make a tiny bone folder for miniature books and it actually creases clean

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karen_hart•11d ago

I spent 10 years folding signatures by hand and finally made a bone folder from a deer antler

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dakotacraig•13d ago

Watched a bookbinder in Charleston fix a 200 year old family Bible with wheat paste and a hair dryer

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spencer_chen6•14d ago

Hot take: I hand-sewed the signatures on my last three rebinds instead of using my $180 sewing frame

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troyh55•16d ago

I glue up in a cold garage in Duluth and it finally bit me last Tuesday

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blair_hill59•17d ago

Found out from a 1970s library manual that medieval binders used to line spines with old manuscript scraps, and now I can't stop checking my own boards

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angela_allen53•18d ago

Chose a Coptic stitch over a case binding for my mom's 40th anniversary book, still wondering if I made the right call

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andrew854•18d ago

Took me 3 hours to figure out the grain direction on a reback because I kept second guessing the feel

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