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the_lisa•21h ago

The bindery on Mulberry St. in Scranton is closing and the owner's selling 40 years of brass tools

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hall.charles•22h ago

Pro tip: I called fancy handmade marbled paper a waste of cash for 3 years, then a bookbinder in Savannah handed me a sheet

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fionaa35•1d ago

Switching from PVA to wheat paste on my last 6 books, and I can't tell if I'm fooling myself

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sageburns•3d ago

My mentor in Ann Arbor told me my signatures were too loose, and it fixed my spines

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casey_harris98•5d ago

My old boss in Baltimore showed me his 1988 sample book, and the paper he used to get off the shelf is gone now

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elliot54•6d ago

Last Tuesday everything went wrong, and I mean all at once

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mason499•7d ago

Warning: a customer at my shop in Akron said my coptic stitch looked 'too neat' and it messed with my head for a week

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taylor_mitchell80•7d ago

Turns out I was gluing the spine the wrong way for 8 months, all because of one loose page

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paul_stone29•8d ago

PSA: A cheap hair dryer saved my warped book board in 4 minutes

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paul_stone29•9d ago

Chose a $90 standing press over a $40 nipping press for my first real binding

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clairem38•9d ago

Spent 6 hours last Saturday on a spine that just would not sit square

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tyler_hall9•14d ago

Vent: my awl slipped through the spine last week and I stabbed a 1904 atlas, not the board

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noahtaylor•14d ago

I tried ironing my own book cloth with a $12 craft iron and the sizing bubbled off in sheets, so maybe stick with the real thing

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sarah_hart•14d ago

A conservator at the Cleveland workshop said my grain direction was backwards on 12 books, so I redid every spine

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quinns20•15d ago

Spent two years pressing signatures with a cheap iron and ruined a first edition before figuring out it was the moisture

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