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

Spencer Chen · 2026-09-30T21:30:02.40771+00:00

Everyone here swears by the frame, but for anything under 200 pages I get tighter, more even kettle stitches just taping a linen tape to my bench and pulling by hand. Anyone else ditch the frame for small jobs, or am I just being stubborn?

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