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Ep. 290: Coptic Bound & Unfinished Novel(s)

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2024/01/20

Bookmaking The first book of the year 2024 is a B6-sized coptic-bound 100-page blank notebook with a nice endpaper, red paper cover, and a cup of cocoa which I thought was coffee, but it came off of a bag of cookies from Miyazaki (Miyazac). I can’t believe I started it last year. It’s been sitting on my workbench for at least two months. I finally finished it as part of my New Year’s Resolution(s)tm Speaking of NYR(s)tm, one of them is to read more real books. I’m currently plowing through Joyce’s

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Ep. 289: Cardboard & How I Start a Novel

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/11/09

Bookbinding I discovered cardboard. Not originally, but in my stack of leftovers and the myriad boxes that my local grocery store piles up after receiving shipments of everything from drinks to bananas. More importantly, I’ve started to use them in my bookbinding. Yea! Free supplies! Last month I made two French link stitch blank notebooks wherein I used cardboard strips to strength the covers. The covers are usually paper folded over to match the size of the book. Flexible but not suitable for what

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Ep. 288: Fast Change

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/10/09

Bookbinding My first year in Japan I was surprised at how fast the seasons changed. One day it’s summer and Boom! the next day it’s fall with a drastic fall (pun?) in temperature. Over the decades I’ve gotten used to it. But this year of record high temperatures? September 30 it was about 33˚ (96˚) with humidity in the high 50s. October 2? About 20˚ (68˚) with the humidity in the mid-50s. Which meant working in my work space was tolerable. And I got two books cased in. The first book, an A6

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Ep. 287: Hot

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/09/09

Bookbinding Nado. Nothing. Zip. Why? A perfectly good reason why. My bookbinding studio doesn’t have air conditioning and like most of the planet, Kanazawa is hot. Hotter than some other places but cooler than a few (like Texas, which is on fire). Rather than sit and sweat a bucket load in the first five or six minutes – which would dampen the paper and make it ew ugly with sweat stains — I’ve turned to reading and writing more. In an air conditioned room in my house or the local

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Ep. 286: My Year of Drinking Kanazawa

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/08/15

Bookbinding Having finished My Year of Drinking Kanazawa I cased it in. Without a few mistakes and some successes. First, the spine is too large by a half a millimeter. Second, the space between the spine and the front and back covers is too small. It is 3mm when it should be about 5mm. While the book opens adequately it is not sincere like a book of short stories should be; it is mocking us. I like the black cover and the white band toward the bottom that announces, on the front, the title. There’s

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Ep. 285 Small Books and Writing

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/08/05

Bookbinding I made a small book as practice in making small books. It’s about 75 pages and measures 100 mm x 75 mm which, for our Imperial users, is about 3.9 inches x 2.9 (3 15/16 by 2 61/64) inches. The cover is wrapped in red paper but there’s a chiyogami stripe down the front cover that doesn’t spread itself to the back cover. It has a bookmark so if you’ve lost your page, you can find it. It’s blank so you can use it for whatever purposes you choose. It’s also smaller than the palm of my hand

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Ep. 284: June Blank Journal Soul of September

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/07/11

Bookbinding This week you have an A6 pocketbook blank journal, similar to the other A6 pocketbook blank journals I have been making but with the addition of two pages With Print! The first page has the title of the book: Tedorigawa Bookmakers and the date: June 2023. The final page has the Tedorigawa Bookmakers logo. That’s it. The other pages, as you can probably guess from the title are blank. The front is mostly green book cloth with two chiyogami-esque strips plus a red stripe that surrounds

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Ep. 283: Two A6 Notebooks

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/06/17

Bookbinding First, the new music for our intros and outros. It’s called Who’s Using Who by the Mini-Vandals and downloaded from YouTube Music. Last week I wrote it was probably downloaded from Pixabay. I was wrong; it’s from YouTube. Here we have two blank notebooks who are the same only in size. A6 and 100 pages. the covers vary dramatically with one multi-colored and the other veering toward the monotone side of the color wheel. The first, on the Front: the Matsushima (松島) one is coptic-bound with

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Ep. 282: Four Notebooks And Finished Fiction!

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/06/10

NewMusic: Who’s Using Who by the Mini Vandals (probably found on Pixabay Music) Bookbinding In the last weeks or so four A5-sized blank notebooks were created. They were created using scraps I had left over from other projects in a failed attempt at reducing leftovers and scraps. Making books and covers creates more leftovers for future use. Sometimes. They are all 100 pages and Coptic bound for two reasons. First, Coptic binding requires a lot less glue and I was, for some odd reason, trying to

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Ep. 281: How Many Mistakes Can I Make?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/06/02

Bookbinding How many mistakes can I make on one blank A6 notebook with 200 pages bound with perfect binding and still get a book I’m relatively pleased with? The short answer is: Lots! • First and minor mistake: I counted 200 pages. I mistakenly assumed the book would have 200 pages. But I only counted sheets, not sides so it actually has 400! pages. Gads. • Second visible mistake: The front book board and the back book board are not the same size. Off by a millimeter or two or half. But I can see

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Ep. 280: A Massive Wait UpEnded!

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/05/20

Every three months is a schedule, isn’t it? Bookbinding This week in Bookbinding we have two A6 (pocketbook) blank notebooks with colorful covers. Mostly. Why? Because my printer broke. This saves you all the time and effort of reading what is inside but gives you the opportunity to write whatever you wish! A win-win situation for all. The First Book is A6 blank notebook with a Japanese protruding rectangle on the front covered in a Chiyogami paper. 100 pages (five signatures of five folios each)

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Ep. 279: Works In Progress

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/02/15

Bookbinding This month we’ve struggled through a couple of books, one of which is practice for next year’s daily schedule. Why is it practice? Because today is Valentine’s Day 2023, a little late for this year’s schedule. The other one is a finished blank notebook. It’s about 100 pages, has a chiyogami-esque cover with blue spine and fore-edges. It is A5 (pocketbook) with, I believe, 7 signatures. I’ve sent it off to the customer so I can’t check the precise number of signatures. Each page is

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Ep. 278: Two Coptic Schedules and a Short Story

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/01/15

Bookbinding I have completed two A6 (文庫本 / pocketbooks) books. The first colorful one is a practice coptic binding with colorful covers as practice for the second. Both are, as I mentioned before, A6 (4 by 6 inches for our north American brethren who life south of the Canadian border). The colorful one is 100 blank pages. Suitable for scribbling, drawing, or note-taking. I practiced not only the sewing (with a thread that was new to me) but also cover design (?). Not really design, but variety. On

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Ep. 277: The New Crucifixion - Written, Bound, and...

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/01/05

Bookbinding I’ve completed a few books. First up is my novel The New Crucifixion. Political intrigue made more complex by religious dogma. For a client for Christmas so it’s been sent out hopefully on time but if not, they can read it during the New Year’s holiday season. It is A5, 148 pages with extra pages advertising other novels Ive written about here (the first chapters of Growing Slurry, Abacus Longing, and Heart of November). As requested by the client, I hasten to add lest people complain

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Ep. 276: Books, Novels, and Substack, O My!

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2022/11/24

Bookbinding This month, you have three items. First: An A6 coptic schedule for 2023 complete with a 2023 and a 1938 calendar (the birth year of the client), and monthly and weekly calendars. Nine signatures. Second: an A5 novel of 12 signatures (182+ pages) titled The New Crucifixions for a client whose father is featured on the cover. Third: a graph paper blank journal (also A5) for your budding graphic artist friend / master doodler. Fiction In fiction, you have a plethora of novels in the throes

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Ep. 275: Two More Notebooks Plus Novel Novel

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2022/10/10

Bookbinding In the past week or so two things have happened: First, the sun has stopped torturing the northern hemisphere so my studio/house/city/country is not sweltering under 100 degree temperatures any more; this is good, in case you were wondering. Second, I completed two blank notebooks. Both are pocketbook size (for the American viewer) or A6 (for the rest of the world) with approximately 100 pages. Both have straps to keep them closed. One has a bluish purple-ish cover while the other sports

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Ep. 274: Dancer Plus Three Books

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2022/08/29

Bookbinding I have had a productive day, yes! Earlier in my life I folded six signatures of A5 paper into A6 size paper, made some covers, and waited. Yesterday, I put the covers and the paper together to form a blank notebook. Two of them. Both have straps to keep the notebook closed. Both have Japanese-style endpapers that coordinate with the covers. One book is yellow with green/yellow/light blue endpapers while the other notebook is red and blue with reddish-blue endpapers. Meanwhile, earlier I

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