- and voila! You have a hand-bound screw-post book with a window!

Once you put on the back cover, you can place the back screw and tighten it together. You could use a

You can now start stacking the book cover and pages on the flat side of the screw post. If your book

Before you start binding the book, you might want to score each page along the 1" line you marked in

I'm not sure what the proper tool is to increase the gauge of the holes, but you can use either the s

If you have an awl, fantastic, but I don't. I just used a tack to make holes. You can also use a safe

You don't have a fancy book press? Me, neither. I just used 2 pieces of wood with C-clamps. I probabl

Now you can cut a strip of 0.75"x" book cloth to cover the entire visible area along the edge. Once i

This is how you can ruin all your effort up until this point if you trim the corner right at the edge

Not bad, eh?

You can use your bone folder to fold the book cloth around the corner.?And make sure to press all sid

Before I apply glue, I like to crease the book cloth along all the edges. It makes clean gluing so mu

Now you can flip the cover and trim the edge at a 45 degree angle.NOTE ?- ?make sure not to trim it r

I ran the side of the bone folder across the cloth to make sure it stayed glued to the Eska board. Yo

I suppose you can glue either the book cloth or the board. I just found it easier and less messy to p

See? That 0.25" gap does give you enough space for the book to fold property.?

The height of my book is 7", so I cut a piece of 9" linen tape so that it gives about 1" on each side

As I mentioned earlier, you want to give about 0.25" between the side strip and the cover to give eno

Once you score all 4 sides, flip it, and you can clean the edge with a bone folder. If the edge looks

If you have access to a professional mat cutter, that's great, but if you are someone like me who doe

Basically, you don't want to do what I did when I made my first book: a book that opened only half wa

First, cut 2 sets of 1"x7" strips and 7"x7" for front back covers.For the window, you need to proper

The book is 7"x7" with a 1" side strip. In my InDesign

General toolsruler, T-square, cutting mat, utility knife,?bevel?mat cutter, pencil, fine sanding pape

I recently finished my thesis project "My Glass Is Way Too Full!" and thought it would be nice to mak

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