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Ep 359 The James Gang Series

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/09/28

BookbindingThe Bomber & Life’s Been Good To Me So Far. In the late 60’s the James Gang had a few hits one of which was the 1970 hit: The Bomber, containing the sentence “Apple Dan is just the man to pick the fruit off your branches” which is the title of my 140-page, A6-size, blank notebook built with mostly leftovers from my To-Be-Used-in-this-century pile. Except for the thread which has never been used. The second and last of the James Gang series sports the 1978 title: Life’s Been Good

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Ep 358 What is a Hinge Gap

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/09/19

BookbindingA link-stitched, 140-page, B6-sized blank notebook has been created with a grey-blue cover, and a black spine. It also has photos of friends as it is being mailed to those friends. Left-overs used in this book include the book boards (file), black spine (purchased years ago; perhaps a decade or more), and the endpapers (envelop). Fiction The Dmitry in Dmitry the Savenger has helped many people in the small town where he washed up in Japan: elderly people, teens, single moms, and

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Ep 357 The Drowning of Hakui

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/09/13

BookbindingHakui is a small town about 25 miles (40 km) north of Kanazawa. On August 27 it had a massive rainfall. It was severely flood with the water reaching up to the middle of people’s front doors, over the tops of cars, and caused a few landslides. Fortunately, nobody died. In their honor, I made a book called Hakui. It is a thin book - four signatures of four leaves each for a total of 64 pages. It is B6 in size and cased in. The cover is made up of left-over material: red book cloth,

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Ep 356: Hog Heaven

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/09/01

BookbindingHog Heaven was sewn on tapes. Probably the second time I’ve sewn on tapes in a long, long time. The signatures (7) were connected by sewing the upper signature through the threads on each station on the lower signatures. This made for a fairly tight connection between the signatures. Hog Heaven was also sewn twice. The first time, I didn’t put the thread through the lower station thread – not a bad thing but not what I planned. I was on the fifth signature when I noticed. I pulled

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Ep 355: And Then… a mistake!

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/08/24

BookbindingA 112-page blank notebook titled ‘And Then….’ is our accomplishment in bookbinding this week. Plus a large mistake. The title has two emotional responses. 1. And Then… She dumped the kale pasta on his head. 2. And Then… He dumped the kale pasta on her head. First response is often: What did he do?! The second response is often: What a monster! The covers of And Then … are made up of a collage I made years ago. Chopped it up and stuck it on a book. Looks nice. The cover is made up of

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Ep 354 Can You Swim in a Dessert?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/08/16

BookbindingWhy is it called Swimming in the Dessert? It’s blank, right? Yes, it is. But there’s an 18-minute short movie called Swimming in the Desert that looks interesting so, not to confuse anybody with two titles for completely different subjects, I changed it to Dessert. It’s seven signatures of five folios each for 140 pages, A6 (pocketbook) with a red spine, blue front cover with a splash of what looks like Thai writing, with light blue and green on the back cover. All the materials

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Ep. 353 AudioBook / Video

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/08/10

Bookbinding I’ll explain why there is nothing in Bookbinding in the Movie/Talkies/Video section. Fiction I’ve worked on Dmitry the Scavenger during the past week; making it stronger, I believe. I added more descriptions, deleted more confusing bits, and made the characters stand out a bit more. Dmitry was shocked to discover he wasn’t in Noto, Sicily, his dream destination, but Noto, Japan. A much smaller port village. He knows he’s in the country illegally, plus he has a fake passport. If

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Ep. 352 Ergo, I think?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/08/02

BookbindingErgo is a 100-page, A6 (pocketbook)-size, blank notebook that I Coptic-bound. Three things make this book different from other A6, 100-page, blank notebooks I’ve made in the past. One: Window for a title on the front cover. Two: Colored in the spaces between threads with random colors. Also, colored the head but not the tail. Three: measured the distance between stations so they were the same. There are six station with three toward the top, head, edge and three toward the bottom,

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Ep. 351 Do You Make False Promises (or just me)?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/07/26

BookbindingI bound my Marsh Mystery Series detective-noir very short novel The False Promises Case. In making this book I used leftover material except for the thread and wax. The book boards were recycle files cut to size, kind of. When I cut the file I remember thinking I will cut this to size later; of course, I forgot I told my self that – I never listen to my self. The result is the book covers are too big. I dislike making books whose covers are too big. The book cover was made of

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Ep. 350 The Language Square

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/07/20

Bookbinding This is a blank notebook designed for people who want to learn another language or take notes. It is A6 in size (pocket book size for easy handling) and Coptic bound (for easy opening and using). There are four squares on each page. If you are learning another language, the first square is for your native language. The second square is for the target language. Research has shown this to be an effective method (your brain knows your native language and will soon connect it with the

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Ep. 349 五つ目綴じ A Japanese Binding & Locale

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/07/13

Bookbinding Mostly in Japanese bookbinding we have four sewing stations (holes), but it is possible and popular to have more. I made a five-hole book which, in Japanese, is called 五つ目綴じ (itsutsu-me-toji). The itsutsu (五つ) means five, me (目) means hole, and toji means binding or stitching. Two things about Japanese bookbinding: 1. The thread might go through a sewing station three times, so make the hole large enough to accommodate that. 2. Keep the thread tight. A loose thread looks really bad

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Ep. 348 Has June 22 Come and Gone, Again?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/07/05

Bookbinding This week I made another coptic-bound, B6, 100-ish-page notebook. The right page has lines for writing while the left page is blank for drawings, doodles, and shading exercises. As you can see, the cover is both purplish-grey and red book cloth with the purplish-grey the same book cloth as my June 5th notebook. The point of this notebook, like the other previous similar notebook, is to encourage me to do three things: • practice drawing (which my fifth grade teacher told my parents

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Ep. 347 In June, is it the Dead of Winter?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/06/28

Bookbinding In bookbinding this week we have, for your visual pleasure, a novel. We have an A6-size, about 60-page, case bound edition of The Dead of Winter: A Novelist’s Kanazawa Afterlife. Printed, folded, sewed, and cased in fairly quickly (for me) in a day or two. Most of the time was attempting to align the title on the cover and spine. Properly. I think I succeeded in that endeavor. Case bound in red book cloth with the titles in black and photographed in front of a coffee shop. Fiction In

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Ep. 346 What Happened June 5th?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/06/21

BookbindingI made a B6-size, Coptic-bound, mostly blank, 120-page, seven-signature notebook for my visual pleasure. Meaning, I made this notebook for myself to use as a notebook, a depository for my doodles, ideas, plans, and to expand my horizons. One horizon I wish to improve on is cursive writing. People my age were taught cursive in school, maybe elementary school. This has fallen by the wayside in the last 50 years. I want to improve mine. Plus, I want to practice drawing; mostly people

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Ep. 345 What is Mariposa?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/06/14

Bookbinding In bookbinding this week we have, an A6-sized, 45-ish page mystery novel completed for a friend who also corrected my Spanish as the mystery takes place in Madrid. This is the second time I made the same book because I totally screwed up the first one; cover was wonky, endpapers didn’t set straight, signatures were loose. I didn’t like it so I remade it. The first version was B6 in size. This one is better at A6 because at the larger size, there were too few signatures for a

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Ep. 344: Will She Like It?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/06/06

BookbindingI made the spine different from the front and back covers. Before last week, it had been about five years or more since I did a quarter binding. For some reason, it was quite stressful. The front cover also has the title. Adjusting the printer, book cloth, and position was an added stress, so the entire book seemed to be a stress-festival. But I accomplished it and felt good about that (finishing it, not the stress). Fiction In fiction, The Madrid Mariposa Murder Mystery continues

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Ep. 343: What is 'Frérot'?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/05/30

Bookbinding Kanazawa has two rivers. The Saigawa and the Asano-gawa (gawa meaning river). Next to the Saigawa near the Sakura Bridge is a restaurant serving good French-fusion food and wine, whiskey, and beer. It is called Frérot. I fashioned a book for Frérot called Frérot. It is about 120 pages, 7 signatures, and case bound. The right page is lined (faintly) while the left side on alternating pages has small photos of the food found at Frérot. It was the first time in a very long time that I

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Ep. 342 Solaris Libri?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/05/24

Bookbinding In bookbinding this week we have, for your visual pleasure, a book One Year in the making. Solaris Libri. This is, I’m assuming, Latin for Solar Book. (If Google translate is accurate with dead languages.) It is an A6 blank notebook of five signatures of five folios each for a total of 100 pages. The only printing in the entire book is the title pages: Solaris Libri and under that Exposed April 1, 2025; Re-covered April 30, 2026. It has a built-in bookmark that is a silvery yellow as

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Ep. 341 Sumerian Beatbox Tunes

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/05/17

BookbindingIn bookbinding this week we have, for your visual pleasure, the second barf bag book of the month titled: Sumerian Beat Box Tunes (for those who are without sin). It is seven signatures of four folios each for a total of 112 pages. The right page is lined, the left page is blank. It is B6 in size and link stitched and cased in. However, unlike most cased in books, this one does not have mull or the paper spine piece. This looks like a regular codex book but opens much nicer and

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Ep. 340: Scavenge & Morph (aka Recycle?)

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2026/05/10

Bookbinding We are often urged to recycle and reuse. I did just that recently on a quick trip to Hanoi that netted me some Vietnamese paper and three barf bags from the flight over. And back. Here’s a small tip. Red-eye flights are good when you land in the evening, not so good when you land in the morning. I made one A6, 100-page, blank notebook with one barf bag with the creative title Bee Creative Now and the subtitle of notebook for inspiration. The front page as a small bee. The title

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