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This is the worst book I've ever made, but it's also one I learned a great deal from. The shoulders are too wide, the round isn't deep enough, the spine is about a millimeter too wide, the cover boards aren't thick enough, and (the final indignity) the spine support got dinged when I was turning in the cloth. The recipient seems to have liked it, which is ultimately what counts, but if I'd ad the time, I'd have started over.

The text block is 80lbs Mohawk Superfine with a deckled foreedge and trimmed head and tail. There's a double endpaper sewn onto the block. 20 signatures of 3 folios each stitched with linen thread (18/3 white Barbour's). The headbands are silk sewn around hemp. The cloth is a dark green linen and the paper is a yuzen on a .68 gray board and two ply bristol on both faces (the board is too slight for the shoulder and bowed out slightly).
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*keyanadrake Oct 19, 2010  Professional Writer
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Wow. The fact that you consider this the "worst" you've made just blows me away. I have so much to learn about book binding.

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~usagibrian Oct 27, 2010  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
It's not a bad book (it works fine--in fact the page drape is actually rather good), but there are a LOT of flaws in the execution.
Everybody who binds always has more to learn. My current phrase is, "Exactly how deep is this rabbit hole?"

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*keyanadrake Oct 27, 2010  Professional Writer
:giggle: I know what you mean, I thought what I did was pretty damn good considering I'm self taught... then I found a tutorial on another way to thread the pages together that would take out all the page bundle gaps that I've been trying to figure out how to fix.. poof.. solved... and now I want to learn how to make it all even better... it's kind of viral... like celtic knotwork.. more you learn the more you realise you have yet to learn. :lmao: Good process though. :3

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~songsforever Oct 6, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Yeah... I disagree that this is the worst book... I really like this one...

Lovely work and good luck with future projects.

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~usagibrian Oct 10, 2010  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Thanks.

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~liesan Sep 30, 2010  Student Artisan Crafter
I think we are always too critical of our own work, the book looks great to me. I can see some of the flaws you mention but most of them like thickness of coverboard and how deep the round is, is just a matter of taste.
Your headbands are sewn quite perfectly ;)

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~usagibrian Oct 1, 2010  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Thank you, but there are actual structural problems. It's still usable & it's not going to fall apart for a few decades. Those headbands did come out pretty well though, didn't they?

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~liesan Oct 1, 2010  Student Artisan Crafter
Not falling apart for a few decades sounds good to me ;) surely beats any comercially produced book. Did you do the headbands with real silk or cotton embroidery floss?

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~usagibrian Oct 1, 2010  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Silk. It's Japanese buttonhole silk. [link]
Laci's in Berkeley has two drawers full of the stuff so I've got a nice assortment at this point.

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