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lucask32
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28m ago
Warning: I cut a 150 year old family Bible apart to rebind it last month in Springfield and my hands still shake thinking about it
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cooper.paige
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5h ago
That sewing machine shop in Portland sold me a needle position I did not know I needed
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uma_baker88
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3d ago
That week my guillotine blade chipped on the last signature of a 300 page rebind
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the_alice
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6d ago
A binder in Tucson showed me his $2 bone folder hack and I almost didn't believe him
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the_julia
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6d ago
Appreciation post: the hairdryer trick that saved my warped boards
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dylanh97
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7d ago
DAE think grain direction on spines is overrated for cheap paperbacks?
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green.hannah
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8d ago
A bookbinder in Asheville showed me the thread tension trick that fixed my saggy spines
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anthonyhunt
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9d ago
Thought I'd save time cutting corners on a rebind, and the text block popped loose on the third open
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the_susan
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10d ago
Showerthought: I was cutting binder board with the grain wrong for 4 years until a customer at the Baltimore fair flipped my sample over
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wesley_fox92
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11d ago
Chose PVA over hide glue on a 1890s family Bible and I'm still kicking myself
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parker_davis41
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14d ago
Unpopular opinion: hand sewing the signatures on my last batch beat my sewing machine for small runs
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fiona_clark
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15d ago
Watched a bookbinder in Savannah fix a spine with a hair dryer and I've been doing it wrong for 6 years
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parkerm39
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17d ago
Ruined a $60 sheet of handmade marbled paper on my last commission, and here's the fix I figured out
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elizabeth_bailey26
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19d ago
Shoutout to the lady at the estate sale in Boise who sold me a box of old book cloth for $4
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owens.willow
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22d ago
The old bookbinder in Portland who taught me more in 10 minutes than a year of tutorials
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