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kaiharris•1d ago

Cost me 11 hours to learn that grain direction matters more than glue choice

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wilson.kelly•3d ago

Left a stack of signatures under my bench weight for 2 weeks and the spines relaxed, why did nobody teach me this

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angela_grant•5d ago

Warning: I finally stopped rounding my spines after ruining 6 books last Tuesday

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jamesm48•6d ago

Chose linen thread over polyester for a 400 page rebind and I think it was the right call

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the_troy•6d ago

A bookbinder in Portland asked why I sew on tapes when cords work fine, and now I'm rethinking my last 40 journals

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willow114•8d ago

A 70 year old binder in Portland showed me her thread tension trick and it fixed my sagging spines

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robinj29•9d ago

Went with the Coptic stitch over a simple case binding for my first journal and now I'm second guessing it

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nancyw97•10d ago

Shoutout to the older guy in Tulsa who told me to stop using PVA on spine linings

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kim693•11d ago

Dropped $55 on a corner rounder that chews through board like a beaver

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cooper.phoenix•11d ago

Pro tip: stopped relaxing my spines overnight after one cracked on a Tuesday

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ray_hernandez•13d ago

I finally caught my grain direction mistake after 4 crooked books, and a library sale tipped me off

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patricia_schmidt14•14d ago

Changed my mind on cheap thread after a $6 spool blew apart mid-project

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wesley_martin•15d ago

Chose between PVA and hide glue on a 1890s family Bible, and I keep second guessing myself

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paige86•15d ago

Spent 6 hours fixing a spine crack that turned out to be a 10 minute glue fix

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robert_butler11•16d ago

My 3 month old coptic stitch notebooks went from floppy to stiff and I think I know why

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