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pat954•20h ago

Shoutout to the old guy at the bindery in Sacramento who showed me how to tap a signature flat

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claire_campbell•22h ago

Shoutout to the retired conservator in Tulsa who got me off PVA for good

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valgibson•1d ago

Kept hearing about wheat paste for spine repairs, figured it was just a cheap gimmick until I tried it on a 1930s cookbook last week

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stella279•1d ago

Switched from a bone folder to a teflon folder for glossy endpapers and I'm never going back

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thomas_wright41•1d ago

My old shop teacher in Dayton said to score the fold twice and I ignored him for a whole year

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beth_butler75•1d ago

Appreciation post: the $60 bone folder I almost didn't buy just saved a 200 page rebind

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ivan522•3d ago

Showerthought: a moth flew into my glue pot 3 years ago and I still check it before every spine

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drew_grant52•3d ago

My old mentor in Baltimore told me a spine should move, and now I think I've been gluing too stiff for years

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john648•3d ago

Hot take: a scrap of wax paper under my glue pot fixed the corner lifting that kept wrecking my case bindings

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the_troy•3d ago

Vent: my corner clamp kept sliding till I put a scrap of shelf liner under it

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jennifer_west•4d ago

My corner rounding went from slicing bread to butter in 3 weeks and I blame one 2 dollar tool

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beth_stone•6d ago

Can we talk about my kettle stitch pulling through the spine on a 400 page rebind?

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cora216•6d ago

Found a 1893 library ledger that says rebinding cost 28 cents, blew my mind

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henry_hernandez•8d ago

PSA: stop gluing your headbands straight to the spine, you'll lose the round

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gracem90•9d ago

Got shamed at the Ohio Valley Guild meetup for how I was casing in

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