It's holiday season, and discounts are here! This year not only we have massively dropped prices for all the 3d-printed bookbinding tools and jigs, but for a limited time, we return our wooden tools: presses, rounding tools, and sewing frames!
Designing and updating the old designs of the tools and jigs I sell at our Etsy shop is a constant process that never ends. At every moment I have two or three new things in development, but I never forget about the older items.
I have extensively expanded my collection of books about books recently. One of the motives to do that was to scan and add them to the PDF Book Collection iBookBinding has been hosting for years. This collection you can get by subscribing to our newsletter.
I’ve just received a package with corner cutting jigs from Argentina. Triángulo de la Felicidad (triangles of happiness, I suppose) is made of plastic. It has one of the classic designs when a truncated corner has a reinforcing crossbeam.
We have a huge sale at our Etsy store from this Friday to next Tuesday (to allow customers from all time zones to buy something). All our 3d-printed jigs and tools are cheaper by 30% now, and prices on everything else dropped by 15%.
Over past years I’ve been using lots of different things as weights while making books. You name it: books, larger books, dumbbells, weight plates, handmade soft weights, proper weights, anything else that was near my workbench. I have also used bricks. However, since the first use, I wanted to make some encasements.
Oftentimes there are discussions on affordability of bookbinding equipment on Facebook and forums. I’ve been preparing my studio for a new season (yeah, I haven’t had any classes since this summer in my workshop), and found the first press that I’ve made for myself more than ten years ago. Or should I call it a vise?
While many things have changed since 2017, iBookBinding continues to produce and sell 3d-printed corner cutting jigs in multiple colors and sizes. And as a more recent development, we now offer the same jig made with metal (steel, brass, etc.)
Spine rounding tools are used to… round spines of covers when one is making case bound books. Alternatively, they may be used to form a rounded spine of a book block.
This corner cutting jig wasn’t my first experience with 3d-printing tools for bookbinding. However, it was the first one to be practical and something that I really liked to use!
This new era of 3d-printed things is finally drawing upon me and my bookbinding workshop. I’m already using some plastic star knobs to tighten simple presses (and plan to start selling these modified versions pretty soon at my Etsy store).
Hi there, bookbinding people, bibliopegists, bibliophilists, bibliophiles and other kinds of bibliothings. My name is Mihai, and I run the Arta Cărții bindery in Bucharest, Romania.
These past days I’ve been working hard fulfilling some orders and adding new things to our shop. Several of my students asked me to make 2-in-1 book presses (with sewing frames included). I wanted to add this tool to the shop for quite a long time and here was an opportunity to finally make them and take some photos.
This Sunday I had a third gold tooling class at my workshop. Once again I wasn’t a teacher, but a student. I’m really glad I had a chance to arrange this series of lessons at my studio and join them to learn something new.
After almost cutting off a piece of my thumb several years ago with my utility knife while preparing boards for a book, I became quite cautious when using sharp instruments. Moreover, always try to pass that idea to my students.
