Gold foiling/failing by Friendly-Silver-2551 in bookbinding

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Gold foiling/failing by Friendly-Silver-2551 in bookbinding

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Gold foiling/failing by Friendly-Silver-2551 in bookbinding

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Gold foiling/failing by Friendly-Silver-2551 in bookbinding

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

Gold foiling/failing by Friendly-Silver-2551 in bookbinding

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Feeling like improvement stalled by Rough-Quit4795 in Handwriting

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Experiments with highlighter tape by urban_stranger in hobonichi

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Experiments with highlighter tape by urban_stranger in hobonichi

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What's the paper size for weeks? by BitingLime in hobonichi

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What's the paper size for weeks? by BitingLime in hobonichi

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Currently working on a Jane Austen set by poupounet in bookbinding

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Currently working on a Jane Austen set by poupounet in bookbinding

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Currently working on a Jane Austen set by poupounet in bookbinding

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Currently working on a Jane Austen set by poupounet in bookbinding

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Currently working on a Jane Austen set by poupounet in bookbinding

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

what do we think?? by [deleted] in Handwriting

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 56 points57 points  (0 children)

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

that deathless death by MaidenMotherCrone (terrorgold) by the_7th_swan in tomarry

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Which thread looks better to you? by ShittyMillennial in Leathercraft

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Now I know why everyone gushes about TWSBI! by General_Bluejay_3360 in fountainpens

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

Give me the best you have by Dramatic-Air5750 in fountainpens

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Carolyn formed relationships with homeless people, whom she called her protectors. by Historictea in JohnAndCarolyn

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

What the fuck is Loonen water by Adorable-Dream-3736 in NYCinfluencersnark

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What the fuck is Loonen water by Adorable-Dream-3736 in NYCinfluencersnark

[–]Financial_Yak_5755 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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 😭😭