Spent a whole weekend trying to get my head around a French groove

I was binding a small journal and the groove just wouldn't form cleanly, always tearing the covering material. It took me three days of fiddling with bone folder pressure and board thickness to get it right. What's your method for a crisp, clean groove?

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beth_butler757d ago

Remember trying to get a clean score line on some handmade cards last year, used way too much water in the paste and warped the whole sheet. Ended up switching to a dull butter knife for pressure, which was a weird fix but it worked. Sometimes the groove just fights you until you find that one weird trick.

dylan2657d ago

Totally get that struggle with weird fixes. I once used a plastic library card for scoring when my bone folder went missing. It's funny how the best tools are often just random stuff already on your desk.