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karenh56
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13h ago
Why you should never wax a thread before testing it on scrap, a hard lesson from a bindery in Baltimore
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hall.joel
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2d ago
Vent: 30 books in and I finally counted how many endpapers I've wasted
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janah83
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2d ago
Watched a binder in Portland round her corners before casing in, and I felt dumb about my last 40 books
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piperbailey
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3d ago
PSA: I stopped pressing signatures flat and a 92 year old book in Tulsa taught me why
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ray_martinez82
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7d ago
Shoutout to the bindery guy in Portland who showed me the wheat paste hack after my spine cracked on the third book
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spencer_coleman
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12d ago
Appreciation post: the $9 bone folder that beat my $70 one
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lindag33
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12d ago
Dropped $60 on a cheap guillotine trimmer for cutting signatures and it left ragged edges on all 40 sheets
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the_lucas
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13d ago
Showerthought: switching from PVA to wheat paste on my limp vellum bindings was a game changer
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victor_robinson
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15d ago
Just realized my cheap bone folder from a $6 starter kit in Portland does the same job as the fancy one
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brookereed
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16d ago
Shoutout to paper backing, I stopped using cloth and my spines finally stay square
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tarabell
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16d ago
Spilled a whole bottle of PVA on my cutting mat and learned to keep my glue in a crockpot
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victor_robinson
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17d ago
Showerthought: my old boss in Akron said never round the spine corners, and I just did 40 of them
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taylorshah
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18d ago
Appreciation post: guy at the Nashville library showed me how they fix torn pages with wheat paste
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spencer_park26
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19d ago
I quit gluing spines flat after a guy at the Richmond bindery meetup showed me his 1890s ledger
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amy_anderson
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19d ago
My mentor in Detroit told me to stop rounding my spines and I ignored him for 2 years
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