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carter.joseph
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7h ago
Switched from PVA to wheat paste on my last 3 rebinds and the spine flexibility is night and day
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price.ray
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9h ago
Update: my 1890s ledger split down the spine and I made it worse before I made it better
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ray_williams
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2d ago
Rant: my corner press and I fought all Tuesday over 40 signatures, and the press won
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the_drew
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2d ago
Update: I called wheat paste old-fashioned until a delivery van soaked my cloth book in Golden, Colorado
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jasonf35
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3d ago
The 4 hour reback on a family Bible in Cheyenne taught me to stop rushing my glue ups
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ivan774
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5d ago
Shoutout to the old binder in Portland who made me reweigh every signature
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the_fiona
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6d ago
Gave up on PVA and switched to wheat paste for my paper repairs, and I'm not going back
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blair_nguyen
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7d ago
Why does nobody talk about the hand press at the print museum in Rochester
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gavin469
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8d ago
Appreciation post: the bone folder my grandfather made from a broken pool cue is still creasing paper
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allen.iris
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8d ago
Hot take: I always thought rounding the spine was just for looks until I saw one hold up 40 years
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blair_nguyen
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10d ago
My first practice book came out ugly, then the third one in June actually looked bound, here's what changed
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robert_cooper
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13d ago
I finally bought the 200 dollar hole punch instead of drilling holes, and it paid for itself in a month
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park.miles
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14d ago
TIL my leather paring got 10x better after a guy at a bindery in Portland told me to stop sharpening my knife so much
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sagecooper
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14d ago
My 300 page cookbook survived my sewing machine but died in my hands with a bone folder
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dylan_brown30
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15d ago
A retired binder in my shop said something about grain direction that made me rethink my whole process
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