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Serious question, did anyone else write off Japanese screw posts as a gimmick until they actually used one?
I ran a small repair bench out of my garage in Toledo for about 6 years, and a customer brought in a 1930s ledger with a cracked spine. A binder up in Ann Arbor kept telling me to try a Japanese screw post binding instead of my usual linen tape, and I figured it was just a fancy trend. Then I did one job with it, four posts, a 3/16 inch drill bit, and the whole thing sat flat and opened clean. The customer came back and said it was the first time the book didn't fight her when she wrote in it. Now I keep a small box of posts in brass and nickel on the shelf, but I still wonder if I'm missing something with the older style. Does anyone here still use tape over posts, or did you switch and never look back?
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palmer.spencer4d ago
Funny how a 3/16 drill bit and four little posts can make you question years of tape work, huh? My tape jobs always felt fine until one sat next to a post binding and suddenly looked like a lumpy mess. The old style still has its place for thin pamphlets where drilling feels like overkill, but for anything with real weight, posts win. Watching a book lie flat without a fight is a hard thing to unsee.
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