Hello, in this instructable I will show you how to bind your own small notebook.
I know, there are tons of book binding tutorials on the internet which are often really good, but almost none of them are how real books are made.
In this instructable I will use the same method as book binders do. (But with crappy materials and almost no tools)
It is just way more work and the result will (read should) look just the same but I swear it will be strong and very durable. (Seriously, I messed up at a certain point and just tearing the covers off was quite a challenge)
Why a small book? Well, to make a large book one requires a large industrial cutting machine to cut the large stack of paper with a clean cut. It just doesn't look good without that.
And the result fits in a pocket. Have you ever noticed that pocket-sized notebooks don't really fit in a pocket? Well this one has a hard cover and it fits in a pocket so good that I didn't even notice it was there and thought I had lost it.
Well, this is what you will need:
-Sheets of paper (the thinner the better, printer paper will do)
-A sheet of nice paper (you know, when you open a book there is always an empty page)
-Something to cover your book in.
-pressed cardboard ~1mm thick (covers)
-thin cardboard (back)
-some kraft paper (the brown paper you send things in )
-Needle (to sew the sections together)
-sewing wire
-some small flat fabric ribbon (to sew the sections on)
-some fine gauze or mesh (to put on the back of the sewn sections)
-good glue; bookbinders glue
-bad glue
-cutter
-cutting machine (if you have one, but I don't think it it is really necessary)
-sand paper
-sewing bank (see step 4 last picture)
handy:
some clamps
flat boards
weights
I know, there are tons of book binding tutorials on the internet which are often really good, but almost none of them are how real books are made.
In this instructable I will use the same method as book binders do. (But with crappy materials and almost no tools)
It is just way more work and the result will (read should) look just the same but I swear it will be strong and very durable. (Seriously, I messed up at a certain point and just tearing the covers off was quite a challenge)
Why a small book? Well, to make a large book one requires a large industrial cutting machine to cut the large stack of paper with a clean cut. It just doesn't look good without that.
And the result fits in a pocket. Have you ever noticed that pocket-sized notebooks don't really fit in a pocket? Well this one has a hard cover and it fits in a pocket so good that I didn't even notice it was there and thought I had lost it.
Well, this is what you will need:
-Sheets of paper (the thinner the better, printer paper will do)
-A sheet of nice paper (you know, when you open a book there is always an empty page)
-Something to cover your book in.
-pressed cardboard ~1mm thick (covers)
-thin cardboard (back)
-some kraft paper (the brown paper you send things in )
-Needle (to sew the sections together)
-sewing wire
-some small flat fabric ribbon (to sew the sections on)
-some fine gauze or mesh (to put on the back of the sewn sections)
-good glue; bookbinders glue
-bad glue
-cutter
-cutting machine (if you have one, but I don't think it it is really necessary)
-sand paper
-sewing bank (see step 4 last picture)
handy:
some clamps
flat boards
weights
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I will make a book of A8 size.
The size doesn't really matter but A8 is just a normal A4 sheet fold in half 4 times.
Cut your A4 sheets in 8 A7 sheets and fold each A7 sheet in half.
These will make the main body of the book.
To make the sections, put 3 of these folded sheets in each other, later these sections will be sewn together.
Do exactly the same with the nice paper, you need to make only 2 of them.
These will be the cover sheets.
The explanation is also visible in the pictures.
The size doesn't really matter but A8 is just a normal A4 sheet fold in half 4 times.
Cut your A4 sheets in 8 A7 sheets and fold each A7 sheet in half.
These will make the main body of the book.
To make the sections, put 3 of these folded sheets in each other, later these sections will be sewn together.
Do exactly the same with the nice paper, you need to make only 2 of them.
These will be the cover sheets.
The explanation is also visible in the pictures.
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Je vote !!!… Je vote !…
J'ai tout bien compris à part le moment avec le papier de verre à la phase 6 (step 6).
Bravo.
A quand un livre avec un mouvement à la Anomalocaris ? ;D
Moi-même j'ai plein de livres dont la reliure est cassée et ton job est une bonne source. L'ennui c'est que ce sont des livres brochés dont la colle a séché. Chaque page est indépendante et je n'ai pas vraiment envie de faire des feuillets, ce que font les relieurs traditionnels. Nettoyer la colle sèche et réenduire de colle appropriée ne marche pas. Je cherche (faiblement) un moyen. Si je le trouve je le publierais ici. En attendant si tu as une idée…
Encore felicitations !…
Le papier de verre est utilisé pour 'aplanir' les côtés du livre.
Normalement on utillise une grande machine à couper pour coupér une petite tranche des côtés. Mais je n'avais pas accès à une machine comme ça.
Donc j'ai essayé à utiliser papier de verre et ça marchait bon.
Je crois qu' enlever la colle (avec un petit couteau) et réenduire est la meilleure solution. (avec une grande machine à couper c'est facile et vite mais vous perdez un peu de papier)
Bonne chance!
Bill
I hope to start on one soon, so wish me luck!
This was probably the most unclear part (white wire and white paper). And textually it is hard to explain with 'go in, go out, go around,...'.
So now there is a bright red line with arrows showing the direction and movement of the string.
I will add some more of those, they were surprisingly easy to make I must say.
Also, pleace specify the steps that are rather unclear for you. I did this all by memory so it could be that some steps are less intuitive than I think they are.
(Though I have written down virtually anything I have done)
(With diagrams you didn't mean flowcharts and such did you?)
it really is SOOOOO much clearer now! I now just need to find that patience of mine that I left somewhere, just so that I can start on this project. Wish me luck!
Good luck!
It really isn't that much work, just a lot of small steps.
But I don't have an OCD so having one is not required.
It may require some patience though.
You know, try to do as much as possible just to try and then, do a second one for real and it will go so much faster and fluent. It takes only a couple of hours work.
I will make some this afternoon.
And I sometimes reference to the pictures in the explanation, there are multiple of those squares that show text when you hover over them.
Thanks for the feedback!
I'm glad my instructable is appreciated.