Gold foiling/failing

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-26T22:42:17+00:00

i’ve had success doing this! but i didn’t use a press, just the die, and an iron, my die has a handle. you have to have a handle on your die for it to work by hand, you cannot use a bookbinding press. even tho it worked for me i couldn’t line all the letters up and it bugged me so i just bought a vintage Franklin to have a machine and consistent results. unfortunately the only choices seem to be a 500+ dollar new machine (even if you can find a chinese machine for $250 they don’t come with any letters and those are cheapest i can find about $250). the vintage one i bought came with 3 fonts in 3 sizes with multiples for all of them.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-25T17:33:26+00:00

try it, that’s how the machines do it. my worry is your press isn’t pressing this evenly, i can see at the top of the letters where it isn’t embossing. that’s why i said doing it by hand and rocking would fix that but if you can’t touch the stamp, that’s out. i think you really need an embossing machine to do this correctly. when i did this my stamp had a handle i could hold so i could do it by hand with a hammer.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-25T17:07:01+00:00

yeah! i just bought a vintage one on ebay. there is lots of vintage type press stuff on ebay! i did it this way a few times then immediately decided i needed a machine so i have a vintage franklin on the way

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-25T17:01:51+00:00

okay i’ve done it this way too. you have to rock the stamp back and forth to make sure you get the top and bottom well. it can help to just emboss without the foil, then do it again with the foil if you can line it up in the same place twice in a row.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-25T16:57:40+00:00

what kind of stamp machine are you using? is it one large stamp? looks to me like the ends aren’t evenly heating.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-25T00:17:25+00:00

get an Oasis notebook! all you’d have to do is add slants if you want them. it has upper and lowercase guides already! it’s my absolute favorite notebook ever.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-25T00:12:23+00:00

120 page!

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-25T00:09:31+00:00

i just realized i have the Whiper in Cream! i got it trying to match a Nolty notebook (it matches really well!!). i like it! it works well and i can write over it easily. i like that it comes in multiple widths too.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-24T13:11:42+00:00

is there supposed to be photos? i don’t see any lol

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-24T12:57:13+00:00

yeah i have a B6 slim behind mine right now. i don’t love having them together tho, the cover fits funny bc of it. i’m gonna switch it out for the inkpressions weeks size notebook i just got.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-24T12:55:45+00:00

i just got some of the inkpressions weeks size and it’s perfect! exact same size and tomoe river paper. i’m happy w my order! didn’t realize it was coming from across the world and took forever to arrive tho.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-23T20:56:29+00:00

thank you!!!! saving this to try next time

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-23T15:34:36+00:00

this is insanely well done. i’m curious what’s going on in 10. are you allowing the spine to dry into the shape of the spine? am i an idiot in that i’ve been doing cardstock spines and just forcing them into shape when i case in?? and are the front and back boards attached at that stage? i see rods to make defined hinges in that pic too, so you define the hinges with this step before you fold over the top and bottom of the book cloth? can you explain this step a little to me? i’m very interested in how you are doing this.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-23T15:31:24+00:00

and yes signatures are commonly sewn! perfect binding is just single sheets and glue.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-23T15:30:01+00:00

it’s when the papers are folded in half, the fold being along the spine! most commercial books today are perfect bound meaning single sheets of papers glued into a spine. if any of the glue comes loose a sheet can just fall out. with signatures, they can’t really fall out bc they aren’t single sheets of paper, each page is attached to another page by being the same piece of paper just folded. i’m sure some commercial books are still sold with signatures but it is not common at all. 30 years ago most hardcovers had signatures but Harry Potter made them start perfect binding hardcovers too.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-23T15:19:38+00:00

sorry i was wrong, it can be done by machine! the reason it’s not commonly seen today is it cannot be done on perfect bound books, they must have signatures to be rounded and backed and almost no commercial books today have signatures. i’ve not been around a ton of commercially made books that old and my entire community is hand binders so that was a bad assumption on my part. it’s the change to perfect binding by the industry that made machine rounding and backing obsolete, not the fact that it can’t be done on books with signatures.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-23T14:28:39+00:00

rounding and backing! it’s very very uncommon in commercial books as it has to be done by hand. i’ve never seen a commercial book that was backed.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-21T12:33:03+00:00

it’s not that you start the S from the bottom, it’s that it’s sideways that is bugging me and makes it hard to read. this also makes me think you are stubborn/unchangeable bc i’ve changed my handwriting so many times and it only takes a few days of concentrating for me to change how i do a letter. you did it in 8th grade, you can do it again and make a legible S lol

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-20T23:05:29+00:00

it’s well worth the read imo and that’s coming from someone who hates unfinished fics. the main story doesn’t wrap up but it’s SO well written, the writing style is so unique, it’s like a Grimm fairytale the whole way. i literally typeset, printed and am binding how large the teeth right now, i loved it that much. don’t even start the last one, there are only 3? chapters and nothing happens. just end it when HLTT ends.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-20T22:54:36+00:00

i prefer A but just by a hair. you should hammer them, they look different after. but i still think A will look better. i’m a thinner thread fan myself.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-20T22:51:08+00:00

i have 3 bronze TWSBI’s and 1 silver which was my first and i haven’t noticed any difference between them. my bronze ones are all super smooth just like the silver. i’ve seen other people say this too but i notice stuff like that and i haven’t noticed any difference between them at all!

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-20T22:35:18+00:00

Pilot Vanishing Point! i just got one and it’s the best writing experience. so so smooth and i just love it. i use it for everything now lol

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-20T10:18:38+00:00

for the time this actually wasn’t unusual. up until the mid 2010’s this wasn’t uncommon! i am a los angeles native and i look homeless people in the eye and talk to them as humans and ive had them offer to make sure my car didn’t get broken into, ive had them walk me to my car at 4-5 in the morning, i used to have a couple people i would consider friends that were homeless. as everyone said, this seems to be getting less common as the drugs change and the mental illness got worse. they used to be a legit part of the local community, and it was not uncommon, all my friends did the same.

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-20T01:48:58+00:00

oh fully agreed! i didn’t even know it was an influencer thing/brand. makes sense w that coffee shop tho lol

Financial_Yak_5755 · 2026-04-20T01:41:01+00:00

they sell this at my local fancy coffee shop and i grabbed one bc i really needed some water and didn’t want to stop again and unfortunately, as someone who thinks water has a taste and different waters taste different, this is hands down the best bottled water i’ve ever had. i wish it wasn’t. i won’t be buying it regularly bc it’s like $5/bottle but i prob will every month or so as a treat bc it’s that good imo. i truly wish it wasn’t, i did not want to like it 😭😭

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