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Uploaded by on Jun 2, 2007

Master bookbinder Peter Goodwin shows the knives he has used every day for 67 years of bookbinding

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  • Impressive knives. I need to have more skill & the patience to paring the leather. Last year I just lost it & accidentally stabbed myself right through my fingernail...ew.

  • HiThere! I know the feeling. Before I had the good fortune to be taught by Peter Goodwin I couldn't par leather at all in spite of expensive specialist knives and then I saw how it was doe and it is so easy.

    That is why I have filmed Peter for posterity as there are few master bookbinders left of the old apprentice school - seven years of training and 60 of experience!

    I will upload more videos when I get the time as I find them wonderful to watch. Nothing like a master craftsman.

    J

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  • Thank you for sharing this often overlooked but so vital part of the process. A good finely sharpened knife makes paring leather a pleasure.

  • whats the intro song called?

  • Wonderful! Dinner knives...

  • Thank You very much JanetteHeffernan.

    I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos on Youtube. It's best for me to practice paring manually & save money rather than paying £10 per leather piece ( any size is the same amount) to pare through a paring machine.

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