I've started adding links to the tools and supplies I use and can locate into the description of all my videos. Full disclosure, purchasing anything through those links helps earn this channel a bit of money as I try and make this more and more of my focus.
I stumbled on your video and looked at your ETSY page. This is some great work! I dont need any of it but Im compelled to buy something because of the craftsmanship. Well done!
1.5k likes and 8 dislikes. Doing good man. I remember as a kid running around leather shops. My aunt and uncle were leather workers for years. Lots of dream catchers vests, chaps, and even some bikinis. Real leather just has this kind of thing about it.
Aaahhhh! I've been watching videos off and on for several weeks and I have finally found THE ONE! I'm making a ship's log for my son and his fiancé's very first sailboat. My father has been sailing since he was a kid, even made his very first sailing dinghy. He taught me. And my son joined us later and grew up on my parent's sail boat. We all loved it. Now it's his turn to own his own sail boat and a proper log. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video.
I bought tooling tools 6 years ago, tried learning from a book and promptly gave up. So happy I found you as I am now tooling and making books!!! You are a great teacher!
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I made my first leather bound notebook and it came out great. Also, thank you son much for responding to my messages asking further questions! If I knew how to attach a picture of the book I made I would
I love your videos because your instructions are clear and you list links to your tools and supplies. I'd rather hear just you without the music, but at least you kept the volume down. Most folks commenting here like the music, so it's just a personal choice. Your leather working skills are crazy good, so please keep the videos coming. I just subscribed. Brilliant!
This video inspired me to get into leatherworking a year or so ago. It was only now that I actually made my first books! They are also my first big money items as well! I made a matching set of three books, rebinding my friend's Dungeons and Dragons books. I used 1/16" balsa wood panels as the inside of the cover, with the leather cover stitched to it. Turned out nice. Regarding burnishing, if you don't want to do it by hand, and you don't have a bench burnisher, it's really easy to make attachments for a rotary tool. I bought some 1/8" metal rod from the big box hardware store (Menards, in my case) and some 1/2" round oak dowels. I drilled a hole through the center of the dowel, then epoxied an appropriate length of rod through it. I threw some stain on the edges of various scrap pieces of leather and pressed it against the dowel. I put my rotary tool in a vice, inserted the newly glued attachment into the rotary tool, then turned it on. . . Used a tapered round rasp and set it against the spinning line on the attachment and kept applying pressure until i felt it was deep enough. Voila! Burnisher rotary tool attachment. I went a bit extra and rounded the edges, used my wood burner to put some designs on it, then applied some tung oil. Page tearing is definitely a thing! I had to go buy a monster manual because I ripped the one he provided.
A tip for having your tooling not get drowned out by the antique to create contrast is to apply super/satin shene to your tooling before antiquing. dye your tooling how ever you want, finish it with shene, let dry then antique. the shene will save the coloring and provide a barrier to the tooling from the antique. this way the antique will still antique the tooling without sacrificing your tooling.
Living in wicked early retirement, essentially, and picked up blacksmithing. While looking for leather videos on sheaths I come across your channel. Now I have another hobby to spend money and time on! Leather carving books. LOL
Really like that antiquing process with the sprayer. If you have any designs beyond the serpents please show those. Your work is amazing. Thank you for the content.
Within the last couple of years I found my groove a bit more artistically with the serpents, starting to slowly try and branch out, like my recent videos that have a boar in them.
Thank you so much for this!! I've never worked with leather, and now I have a beautiful leather bound book to give as a gift to someone I love! Perfect tutorial.
This is so beautiful. I love notebooks and have always wanted to do something personalized like this. Never seen the gouging technique used to help bend the cover. Definitely easier and faster than what I'd seen. It also looks simple enough to reuse. Fill the notebook then cut out the filled pages and refill for drafts. No need to buy notebooks ever again
Its always good to leave about a quarter or 3/8" inch of leather around the edges of your pages for the overall size of your leather book. After making them for many years I and restoring old books in the university library I have learned many ways of doing so. Also its best to come in either half or 5/8" inch from both ends of your paper to punch your first set of holes for the binding. And then measure however far apart you wish to make your other holes for the binding. Just dont go to crazy and punch to many holes and risk them from tearing out of your book. And when punching all the holes into your paper chapters for binding its always best to use some form of clamps to keep all your pages together from moving around to much or uneven as you punch the holes in the spine of your pages. I found that using small or medium size spring or metal paper clamps are great for holding all the pages together before hole punching. Also if your doing a leather lined book like in this video then you dont have to punch holes into your other front face piece of leather of the book. Just leave your leather liner larger than the front face leather and stitch your pages just to the leather lining instead. Then once you have it all ready to go. First glue the spine down first of the leather liner to the spine of the front face piece. Then working from the middle of the book to the outside of the book of both sides. Once you have it glued down, trim off any excess leather of your leather liner off around the front face book cover piece of leather. That way itll look like an older style of book binding and the stitched pages dont show on the outside of the book and are completely concealed sandwiched inbetween the two pieces of leather. Yet there are so many different ways to make a leather bound book and its also a personal preference how you want it to look like. When using the V gouge to make the grooves into the leather to fold or bend. You only want to go about one third the thickness of your leather. The V gouge is adjustable so you dont go all the way through your leather.
Lovely journal. Not an easy bind or work for most people. Even lost me on your time lapse for the stitching and I make leather journals, but different to your kind. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!!!!! Finally!!! A thorough, easy, interesting how to video on journals!!!!! Where have you been??????!!!! So happy I found you! Look forward to learning an d watching more of your videos.
This is very cool---watching this & your leather satchel video, and this gave me some ideas (I've been toying with trying my hands at leatherworking ever since the lockdown)? What I'm thinking about would be to replace the paper insert for a ring binder? Also thinking to do the carved leather as a separate piece that gets sewed onto the covers (similar to what you did with the satchel).....
Oh wow! I’d love to make something like this for my sketching, watercolour and artwork. I’ve always loved leather bound books. That antique look and call me weird but the smell of the leather I like too.
I love this toturial! Inspired me to try to make my own book. I'm halfway atm, but I don't have all the tools, so im' trying and failing different techniques with makeshift tools. I don't have the V gouge to carve the grooves in the back.. can i use my swivel knife or just a stanley knife to try to cut grooves you think?
If you're very careful you can. Practice lots on scrap. Or use thinner leather. Or just bend and hammer it a lot and see how it turns out for the fold.
This is so cool! I'm trying to get into book binding but have only tried the coptic stitch, which has quite a loose finish... could you please do a video on how you stitched this book step by step? It's hard to follow the timelapse! Keep up the awesome work, dude
Thanks for putting this on here, you make it so easy to do, you have such a straight cutting hand, don't think I can do so well...I'm dying to make one, just need to get my materials together, have made paper that I am hoping to use for it, can't wait
Friendly tip- if you had a link to a cart full of each item in the video, hat would be super helpful! As it stands I have to click and add each individually. Which I’ll do. Because I think you’re rad and you vids are to the point and simple. I love it.
This is a project I've had in the back of my mind for a couple years. It would be something I'd like to tackle at some point. I'd go all out too with all kinds of adornments. I might start with some super simple designs at first.
I've been binge watching some of your videos today and I gotta say that your craft is absolutely stunning! This journal is beautiful though I wished it had more pages. But that's just my preference. Keep up the amazing work! You inspire me to work more on my leather bookbinding
A trick I figured out for burnishing the edges if you don't have the big power burnisher is to glue a small dowel into a circular edge burnisher and put it in my drill. It appears to give me a real nice edge.
I made a character a while back who was basically a librarian in the library of the universe which is a big thing in my current dnd campaign. There is a home brew magical item I made which can transport one person to the library to take one or two books depending on their level (Above 15 is 2-3 depending on the amount of information). Ima use this as one of the books he carries with him when I make a cosplay of him
I want to thank you for this inspiring, instructive and also entertaining video. I was looking for some way to make a leatherbound bound as a christmas gift last year, after seeing that my daughter shows interest in such books. One of the first videos I found was yours, and after watching it I decided to try this out, of course without the dragon carving. But, somehow this leather carving thingy looked so cool, that I began to think about it. My daughter reads all books of a fantasy novel around various cat clans and it took me quite some time to get the idea to carve those clan symbols, layered into a cat claw into the leather. After heavy practising, my carving eventually got a tiny bit better (or my claims dropped :-) ) Allthough this was an unexpected expensive idea since I had none of the tools needed, and leather is more expensive than I thought, I had to do it. I bought some tools, two colours, one antique finish and three sheets of leather, paper, thread.... I got it done, one day before christmas, it turned out quite good, with only a few minor mistakes: - *not* buying a v-gauche (used a carpet knife, bad idea) - it seems only the internet sells 1mm hole punches (desperately used a dreml to drill the holes, worked perfectly) - dying brown multiple times is not the same as dying black (used black edding after dying, turned out good) - when sewing after applying the antique gel, the needle took some gel from the holes and smeared it onto some pages (took me some time to realize this) But all is fine, since she loves it and everybody who sees it is impressed :-) Thanks! Michael
Hi Richard is there a way to bound single pages instead of folding them the way you did ? I want to make the cover like you but I have a few hundred pages that I would like to do this to in one book
I haven't looked into it, but there is. I think it involves clamping them all down so they're tight, and gluing something to them all that then gets titched into the book / spine. May look into it and do a video on it when I come up from the chaos of working in Film right now.
Magnus. What's the best way to go about covering an existing book? I've got a paperback copy of some Norse stories I want to give like a leather wallet?.
I love your videos ... you are a AWESOME teacher and even better leather worker .... i really like the pens you were using ... i did not see them listed ... or do you get empty ones and fill with the colors you have listed (dyes) .... anyway .... AWESOME video .. LIKE all of them .... YOU ROCK!
Why do you use super 77 instead of contact cement? Does it hold up better on something that would get a lot of bending during use and won't have a stitched edge?
I use Super 77 because it's a quick tack, I wouldn't use it if you weren't stitching the book as well. I also wish I had mentioned that in the video., Going to add a note to it if I can right now.
THis video inspires me! and I've never worked with leather before. You only do one page per "stitch-column." I assume you can stack more pages per stitch-column. What is the spacing of your holes? How many pages can you stack per stitch column with that hole spacing?
Awesome! What are you planning to write in it? Details of your travels around the world? Drawings and observations of bugs and plants? Spells and incantations? Ships logbook? Notes about your quest for the Holy Grail?....Grocery list?
+Cassie Barns Happy you're enjoying the videos. The beard is on shave watch right now. I said I'd shave it when I got down to a certain weight. I'll bring it back right away though I'm sure. Haha
It's amazing man. Knowing me, I'll eventually get the tools up to do this. Amazing work on your knot too! I have a paperbound version of an old grimoire. Do you think you could make a video on rebinding a paperbound book with leather?
This turned out fantastic! Would this design work for something like a ~250 page book. Would you add more pages to each packet or make more holes in the side of the book cover to compensate more packets of pages?
I've started adding links to the tools and supplies I use and can locate into the description of all my videos. Full disclosure, purchasing anything through those links helps earn this channel a bit of money as I try and make this more and more of my focus.
Are you able to list the music as well?
I stumbled on your video and looked at your ETSY page. This is some great work! I dont need any of it but Im compelled to buy something because of the craftsmanship. Well done!
1.5k likes and 8 dislikes. Doing good man. I remember as a kid running around leather shops. My aunt and uncle were leather workers for years. Lots of dream catchers vests, chaps, and even some bikinis. Real leather just has this kind of thing about it.
Can u make me one
What kind of paper did you use and where did you order it from? Book looks great, your carving skills secede mine by a lot!
Aaahhhh! I've been watching videos off and on for several weeks and I have finally found THE ONE! I'm making a ship's log for my son and his fiancé's very first sailboat. My father has been sailing since he was a kid, even made his very first sailing dinghy. He taught me. And my son joined us later and grew up on my parent's sail boat. We all loved it. Now it's his turn to own his own sail boat and a proper log. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video.
I bought tooling tools 6 years ago, tried learning from a book and promptly gave up. So happy I found you as I am now tooling and making books!!! You are a great teacher!
Excellent, now I can surprise Anna with... MANY LEATHER BOUND BOOKS...
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I made my first leather bound notebook and it came out great. Also, thank you son much for responding to my messages asking further questions! If I knew how to attach a picture of the book I made I would
Send it to me info at darkhorseworkshop.com
I want to make my own book of shadows and now im like rly excited
I'm so excited! As soon as I saw your shirt I knew you would be the best teacher! I'm making my first shadow book!!! All Hail Odin!!!
Yay! Thank you!
I love your videos because your instructions are clear and you list links to your tools and supplies. I'd rather hear just you without the music, but at least you kept the volume down. Most folks commenting here like the music, so it's just a personal choice. Your leather working skills are crazy good, so please keep the videos coming. I just subscribed. Brilliant!
Why did i sink all my Profession Points into Engineering and not into Leather Working??
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profession points?
@@RileyTube08 like in a roleplay game
Engineering is better for PVP.
@@DarkHorseWorkshop not as fun as this though I like art my dead ass went for engineering but my passion is in art
This is the first time watching a DHW video.Very nice! Thank you for sharing your valuable time with us, Paz
Glad to have you aboard! Thanks!
i'm glad i found this channel its been hard trying to do leather working without good tutorials
This video inspired me to get into leatherworking a year or so ago. It was only now that I actually made my first books! They are also my first big money items as well! I made a matching set of three books, rebinding my friend's Dungeons and Dragons books.
I used 1/16" balsa wood panels as the inside of the cover, with the leather cover stitched to it. Turned out nice.
Regarding burnishing, if you don't want to do it by hand, and you don't have a bench burnisher, it's really easy to make attachments for a rotary tool. I bought some 1/8" metal rod from the big box hardware store (Menards, in my case) and some 1/2" round oak dowels. I drilled a hole through the center of the dowel, then epoxied an appropriate length of rod through it. I threw some stain on the edges of various scrap pieces of leather and pressed it against the dowel. I put my rotary tool in a vice, inserted the newly glued attachment into the rotary tool, then turned it on. . . Used a tapered round rasp and set it against the spinning line on the attachment and kept applying pressure until i felt it was deep enough. Voila! Burnisher rotary tool attachment. I went a bit extra and rounded the edges, used my wood burner to put some designs on it, then applied some tung oil.
Page tearing is definitely a thing! I had to go buy a monster manual because I ripped the one he provided.
Awesome about the books they sound cool. :)
A tip for having your tooling not get drowned out by the antique to create contrast is to apply super/satin shene to your tooling before antiquing. dye your tooling how ever you want, finish it with shene, let dry then antique. the shene will save the coloring and provide a barrier to the tooling from the antique. this way the antique will still antique the tooling without sacrificing your tooling.
I've got that process down pretty good now, smart tip though.
It’s really beautiful book! Thanks for sharing this amazing art!
Absolutely LOVE how this turned out
This would be like a cool D&D journal book
Definitely. :)
Truly lovely. Love the work, the skill, ease of understanding, presentation and that voice, enchanting. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words. I need to make more videos. Getting after it starting tonight.
The book looks great. Thanks for the video. I appreciate the commentary you give while going through the video.
Many thanks.
Living in wicked early retirement, essentially, and picked up blacksmithing. While looking for leather videos on sheaths I come across your channel. Now I have another hobby to spend money and time on! Leather carving books. LOL
I just subscribed. I blacksmith and beekeeping, and now I think I'm gonna take up leather working. Thanks for the videos. You do a great job
Really like that antiquing process with the sprayer. If you have any designs beyond the serpents please show those. Your work is amazing. Thank you for the content.
Within the last couple of years I found my groove a bit more artistically with the serpents, starting to slowly try and branch out, like my recent videos that have a boar in them.
I liked the new angle for the stitching. I could easliy see what you were doing.
Thank you so much for this!! I've never worked with leather, and now I have a beautiful leather bound book to give as a gift to someone I love! Perfect tutorial.
You are so welcome!
I've never seen or even heard about book making and carving but I'm going to look into it! Seems like fun.
This is so beautiful. I love notebooks and have always wanted to do something personalized like this. Never seen the gouging technique used to help bend the cover. Definitely easier and faster than what I'd seen. It also looks simple enough to reuse. Fill the notebook then cut out the filled pages and refill for drafts. No need to buy notebooks ever again
Glad you like it. :)
Its always good to leave about a quarter or 3/8" inch of leather around the edges of your pages for the overall size of your leather book. After making them for many years I and restoring old books in the university library I have learned many ways of doing so. Also its best to come in either half or 5/8" inch from both ends of your paper to punch your first set of holes for the binding. And then measure however far apart you wish to make your other holes for the binding. Just dont go to crazy and punch to many holes and risk them from tearing out of your book. And when punching all the holes into your paper chapters for binding its always best to use some form of clamps to keep all your pages together from moving around to much or uneven as you punch the holes in the spine of your pages. I found that using small or medium size spring or metal paper clamps are great for holding all the pages together before hole punching.
Also if your doing a leather lined book like in this video then you dont have to punch holes into your other front face piece of leather of the book. Just leave your leather liner larger than the front face leather and stitch your pages just to the leather lining instead. Then once you have it all ready to go. First glue the spine down first of the leather liner to the spine of the front face piece. Then working from the middle of the book to the outside of the book of both sides. Once you have it glued down, trim off any excess leather of your leather liner off around the front face book cover piece of leather. That way itll look like an older style of book binding and the stitched pages dont show on the outside of the book and are completely concealed sandwiched inbetween the two pieces of leather. Yet there are so many different ways to make a leather bound book and its also a personal preference how you want it to look like.
When using the V gouge to make the grooves into the leather to fold or bend. You only want to go about one third the thickness of your leather. The V gouge is adjustable so you dont go all the way through your leather.
Thanks Michael S. Now I have an answer to my question re V-gouge versus an Adjustable Groover :)
Lovely journal. Not an easy bind or work for most people. Even lost me on your time lapse for the stitching and I make leather journals, but different to your kind. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for taking the time to make and share this skill. Very grateful..Skal
I love doing it. I'm kind of sad I've had no time lately.. Hopefully more soon.
Thank you!!!!! Finally!!! A thorough, easy, interesting how to video on journals!!!!! Where have you been??????!!!! So happy I found you! Look forward to learning an d watching more of your videos.
I've been here... Glad you found me. :)
@@DarkHorseWorkshop Thank you for taking time to message me back. And again, thank you for your awesome videos.
2:15 using a hollow punch instead of an awl for the signatures. That's some next level stuff, i like it.
This is very cool---watching this & your leather satchel video, and this gave me some ideas (I've been toying with trying my hands at leatherworking ever since the lockdown)? What I'm thinking about would be to replace the paper insert for a ring binder? Also thinking to do the carved leather as a separate piece that gets sewed onto the covers (similar to what you did with the satchel).....
Sounds pretty cool to me. :)
Oh wow! I’d love to make something like this for my sketching, watercolour and artwork. I’ve always loved leather bound books. That antique look and call me weird but the smell of the leather I like too.
I love the smell of leather I think alot of people do 😊
*suddenly inspired*
To make a book for Anna?
I watched his shield video (I’m Scandinavian and look up to my ancestors) and I got inspired
The sound track was a nice touch
this turned out really beautiful.
Looks amazing!! 🤍
I love this toturial! Inspired me to try to make my own book. I'm halfway atm, but I don't have all the tools, so im' trying and failing different techniques with makeshift tools. I don't have the V gouge to carve the grooves in the back.. can i use my swivel knife or just a stanley knife to try to cut grooves you think?
If you're very careful you can. Practice lots on scrap. Or use thinner leather. Or just bend and hammer it a lot and see how it turns out for the fold.
Thank you. It worked out pretty well, but ill definitely get the right tool with my next paycheck:)
Your detailed descriptions/explanations were very much appreciated. You've created a beautiful piece.
Awesome bro thumbs up!! Hey I’m a chef and thought of making my menus with this format. Any advice on how I can learn a bit more about this process??
This is so cool! I'm trying to get into book binding but have only tried the coptic stitch, which has quite a loose finish... could you please do a video on how you stitched this book step by step? It's hard to follow the timelapse! Keep up the awesome work, dude
Lucy Rose Sure thing. Sounds like a simple enough video to do.
Dark Horse Workshop oh my god you replied! Literally watched all your videos last night. Thank you!!
Lucy Rose Haha. Of course I replied.
Lucy Rose, you can slow youtube videos down by going to the gear icon, select speed then choose .75, .5 or .25 to slow them down
This is sooo gorgeous. I'm your bigest fan now.Love the choice of music to.
Incredible embossing
Absolutely gorgeous!!! Beautiful cover.
Thanks for putting this on here, you make it so easy to do, you have such a straight cutting hand, don't think I can do so well...I'm dying to make one, just need to get my materials together, have made paper that I am hoping to use for it, can't wait
What enchantment you plan to use on it?
Love the video, just a couple questions. What if you want to add more pages later? Is that doable with this design?
You could in theory take the pages out and replace them later, or just fold in more pages to start with.
im very excited to try this out :D gonna make a lined book!
stunning work.
Friendly tip- if you had a link to a cart full of each item in the video, hat would be super helpful! As it stands I have to click and add each individually. Which I’ll do. Because I think you’re rad and you vids are to the point and simple. I love it.
Totally makes sense but isn't possible with how Amazon works.
This is a project I've had in the back of my mind for a couple years. It would be something I'd like to tackle at some point. I'd go all out too with all kinds of adornments.
I might start with some super simple designs at first.
I've been binge watching some of your videos today and I gotta say that your craft is absolutely stunning! This journal is beautiful though I wished it had more pages. But that's just my preference. Keep up the amazing work! You inspire me to work more on my leather bookbinding
You can just fold more pages into it. :)
Stunning! Maybe some metallic gold accents on another knot work carving?
Amazing work! You have inspired me to try out leathercraft Magnus. Keep up the great work man!
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Is there like a set for every tools?
Great technique
nice effect at cover design!
My goodness this is amazing, thanks for making the video!
odette nightshade Glad you found it handy.
Well done! A beautiful book!
A trick I figured out for burnishing the edges if you don't have the big power burnisher is to glue a small dowel into a circular edge burnisher and put it in my drill. It appears to give me a real nice edge.
You've got one badass voice my dude.
why so few pages for such a wide book. Seems like a lot of work for so few pages. Can't you layer more pages per fold or something?
I made a character a while back who was basically a librarian in the library of the universe which is a big thing in my current dnd campaign. There is a home brew magical item I made which can transport one person to the library to take one or two books depending on their level (Above 15 is 2-3 depending on the amount of information). Ima use this as one of the books he carries with him when I make a cosplay of him
5:54 so is that suppose to help with how easy it is to close/open?
Added the inside leather? Honestly I was just winging it and added it. To help it bend vgouging is the way to go
I would never try this myself but what a joy watching the video! You do beautiful work!
Dude! Finally another video from you I have been waiting for this! Always love your instructions and killer sound this time music on point.
I have been looking for a way to do this...this is a solid foundation video. Thank you.
I LOVE THIS. THANK YOU.
What pro dye color did you use here, it looks like a nice tan? Any Pro Dye I use dries SO dark.
I believe I will have to try and make one myself now. Beautiful work!!
+Arvil Maddox awesome to hear
Very nice! Thanks for the video.
I want to thank you for this inspiring, instructive and also entertaining video.
I was looking for some way to make a leatherbound bound as a christmas gift last year, after seeing that my daughter shows interest in such books.
One of the first videos I found was yours, and after watching it I decided to try this out, of course without the dragon carving.
But, somehow this leather carving thingy looked so cool, that I began to think about it. My daughter reads all books of a fantasy novel around various cat clans and it took me quite some time to get the idea to carve those clan symbols, layered into a cat claw into the leather. After heavy practising, my carving eventually got a tiny bit better (or my claims dropped :-) )
Allthough this was an unexpected expensive idea since I had none of the tools needed, and leather is more expensive than I thought, I had to do it. I bought some tools, two colours, one antique finish and three sheets of leather, paper, thread....
I got it done, one day before christmas, it turned out quite good, with only a few minor mistakes:
- *not* buying a v-gauche (used a carpet knife, bad idea)
- it seems only the internet sells 1mm hole punches (desperately used a dreml to drill the holes, worked perfectly)
- dying brown multiple times is not the same as dying black (used black edding after dying, turned out good)
- when sewing after applying the antique gel, the needle took some gel from the holes and smeared it onto some pages (took me some time to realize this)
But all is fine, since she loves it and everybody who sees it is impressed :-)
Thanks!
Michael
That's great to hear. It can be a bit daunting at first, but is a lot of fun.
Thanks for the reply. I can look out for more videos now.
Really like the paper you used. What kind is that?
I bought it at an art supply shop, it's normal paper with a papyrus coloring and print on it.
Hi Richard is there a way to bound single pages instead of folding them the way you did ? I want to make the cover like you but I have a few hundred pages that I would like to do this to in one book
I haven't looked into it, but there is. I think it involves clamping them all down so they're tight, and gluing something to them all that then gets titched into the book / spine.
May look into it and do a video on it when I come up from the chaos of working in Film right now.
Fantastic 🤯 I’ve never seen a book like this😲
I'm here so I can make "many leather bound books" for Anna so she'll love me
Who and where is Anna? Haha
Dark Horse Workshop watch the video named "creepy chess comments" from soothouse you'll understand
Godspeed.
@@lucysjournal4897 trolling the trolls ...
Amazing. Such talent.
I liked how you threaded it!
Carving a frame would look wonderful on that cover.
Very nice work!!
Magnus. What's the best way to go about covering an existing book? I've got a paperback copy of some Norse stories I want to give like a leather wallet?.
This isn't the best example for quality. But something along these lines after a quick search for an example: ruclips.net/video/HOKS0-SOqss/видео.html
I love your videos ... you are a AWESOME teacher and even better leather worker .... i really like the pens you were using ... i did not see them listed ... or do you get empty ones and fill with the colors you have listed (dyes) .... anyway .... AWESOME video .. LIKE all of them .... YOU ROCK!
i missed you SAYING what they were ....
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Thank you for sharing this
You are so welcome
Why do you use super 77 instead of contact cement? Does it hold up better on something that would get a lot of bending during use and won't have a stitched edge?
I use Super 77 because it's a quick tack, I wouldn't use it if you weren't stitching the book as well. I also wish I had mentioned that in the video., Going to add a note to it if I can right now.
Is there a name for the stitching/book binding pattern you used here? Looks great, excellent work
Probably, but it's just how I learned it when I first made a book.
So if I dont have a v gouge, would a box cutter used with light pressure achieve the same effect?
I wouldn't do that. The cut will open up more easily with time since it's a cut and not just kind of gouged in.
THis video inspires me! and I've never worked with leather before. You only do one page per "stitch-column." I assume you can stack more pages per stitch-column. What is the spacing of your holes? How many pages can you stack per stitch column with that hole spacing?
There are 10 folded pages per column on my books now. There's 5 on these ones. Spacing is the graph paper I use.
Awesome! What are you planning to write in it? Details of your travels around the world? Drawings and observations of bugs and plants? Spells and incantations? Ships logbook? Notes about your quest for the Holy Grail?....Grocery list?
That is some epic bookmaking music
great work - i write books as a hobby and this would be great to put my story's in
Would you make a video making a new cover for a book already covered interested in doing this for a bible
Love your big , bad, evil , black hammer! ⚒
What paper are you using for? Thank you.
I subbed the moment I saw all your viking collection at 4:30 (that includes your beard). I instantly got the gist of what this channel is about~
+Cassie Barns Happy you're enjoying the videos. The beard is on shave watch right now. I said I'd shave it when I got down to a certain weight. I'll bring it back right away though I'm sure. Haha
It's amazing man. Knowing me, I'll eventually get the tools up to do this. Amazing work on your knot too! I have a paperbound version of an old grimoire. Do you think you could make a video on rebinding a paperbound book with leather?
On the inside leather, did you use the same thick veg tan you used for the outside cover? Or did you use a thinner type?
Always as thin as I can go.
This turned out fantastic! Would this design work for something like a ~250 page book. Would you add more pages to each packet or make more holes in the side of the book cover to compensate more packets of pages?
loved the cover design, wish I could do it : )
Ty for the beautiful video
Hey! Love the video. Got one question though: What is the diameter on the tool you use to make em holes with? Thank you!
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Thank you!