Basic DIY Book Binding Demonstration

http://www.DIYBookbinding.com

Do-it-yourselfer demonstrates how to make a glue bound paper back book. Includes a look at a home made bookbinding jig.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• bookbinding
• bound
• glue
• perfect
• paper
• bookblock
• jig
• trade
• paperback
• machine

[konohamarutard]

Glue. o.o;;;

seriously, glue.

I don't possibly see how on earth glue can be strong enough to hold together pages. I can imagine a year later you only have to lightly pull a page and it'll be ripped out. Just seems too fragile to work....

[gotoguyenterprises]

@konohamarutard Millions of books are made using glue every year. I have books on my shelf that are decades old with glue bindings. The very first book I ever made this way (about 7 years ago) is still in excellent shape. No pages have fallen out and I can tug on the inner pages and they don't budge. You might be surprised at how many commercial hardcovers have glue bindings in the book block (I've cut a few apart doing research and the headband was covering up a plain old glue binding.)

[picoscar]

Thanks for the video. Im curious about this new book. did you said it is a ebook? what is it about? 

[gotoguyenterprises]

@picoscar It was a marketing related ebook called "Butterfly Marketing" that I had gotten. There were some very cool ideas in it and I wanted a copy on my bookshelf.

Printing out ebooks for offline reference was the whole reason I started bookbinding. My first project was a book called "Writing Non-Fiction."

[kaitrus]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh he cuts on his wooden table without a mat D:

[shilltheshillXXX]

@gotoguyenterprises I look at bindings that are from my grandfather's book-binding days (he was also a master at gold-leaf), and the binding are all stitched. How did they do that back in 1910? He didn't live to tell me. Is there a tutorial somewhere?

[aquapunkchick]

could you make a jig and then can i buy it from you?

[purplemusiclover88]

can I use wood glue?? is it strong enough??

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and what can i use as an alternative if i don't have that paperfitting-kind of wood(whatever it is)..???

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please help me ... I need answers! =)

[konohamarutard]

@Mercfreakk uhm... lol??? sorry for assuming glue is fragile??? lighten up dude

[Mercfreakk]

@konohamarutard, you seems like one of those guys we in the printing industry refer to as the "Smart-ass pain" customer. You know better than the professionals how to do their job! As gotoguyenterprises said: glue are used to bind millions of books. It is the type of glue that plays an important role! All glues should be strong when dry, flexible or hard depending on customer need. Next time, get your facts in order before just commenting because you can!

[candipill]

@konohamarutard - I nearly bought one of those commercial bookbinding machines until I watched how the machine works - and I realised that all it did was heated up glue and pasted it onto the spine and then I managed to do the same thing with a hot glue gun. Almost all my commercially produced hardcovers books are glued as opposed to sewn - seriously go check it out. Obviously if you use like Pritt glue stick or so it wont work but I find regular Hot glue works as well as resin glue.

[airbrushstand]

What kind.of paper do u recommend