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janar16
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3h ago
Showerthought: I finished 500 pamphlet stitch booklets last Saturday and had a weird reaction when I hit the number
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park.robin
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1d ago
PSA: Stop gluing your spine liners to the boards, a binder in Tulsa showed me why
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elizabeth900
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2d ago
Spent 3 weekends on a Coptic stitch spine that kept cracking, and the fix was so obvious
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the_henry
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3d ago
My 200 lb nipping press tipped over mid-press and I just stood there like a muppet
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foster.charles
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7d ago
Burned $60 on cheap linen thread that snapped on every signature
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verar21
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7d ago
Counted my signatures after finishing this Milton binding and got 41, thought I'd miscounted
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patriciap52
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9d ago
Watched a guy at a bindery in Tulsa rub his thread with beeswax and I felt like an idiot
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wyatt52
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11d ago
A guy at the Cleveland show said my spine rounding looked like a wet noodle, so I changed one small thing
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xenagarcia
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11d ago
Question about my mentor's 1978 press and how he prepped signatures
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terry_lewis21
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12d ago
Appreciation post: the bone folder my mentor gave me in Portland in 2012 still shapes every spine I case in
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lilyg83
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12d ago
Old timer at the bindery in Sacramento warned me about PVA on leather, and he was dead right
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kevin_dixon
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13d ago
Took me 9 hours to fix one crooked spine because I kept guessing instead of measuring
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eva908
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16d ago
Rant: the old bookbinder in Tucson who made me re-sew a whole text block over 2mm
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masonbell
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16d ago
Why does nobody talk about sewing signatures over a support instead of through the whole spine?
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rodriguez.diana
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18d ago
A bookbinder in Portland watched me fold a signature and said my bone folder was doing all the work, not my wrist
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