Refillable Leather Book / Journal Tutorial (Loads Of Pictures)

[MonicaJacobson]

This is a super-cool tutorial, and your books are awesome. Thank you for posting it!

[Bob Blea]

Your tutorial is very thorough but two things jumped out at me.

1) The way you gouged the folds on the grain side of the leather will really weaken it. Much of the strength of the leather is on the grain surface and by gouging out that surface to make your folds you are left with a suede like surface that may have pretty loose fibers to hold it together. Eventually the remaining leather will stretch and/or tear with use. You could get the same effect by gouging out the flesh side and have a much stronger spine.

2) About the only reason I can see that you aren't seeing a difference between using your swivel knife on dry and wet leather is that your knife isn't sharp. Using a sharpened knife on cased leather feels about the same as pulling a butter knife through butter.

Those are just my opinions, take them for what they are worth. The tutorial itself looks fantastic and you obviously put a lot of effort into it.

Bob

[MagiKelly]

Hi Bob, yes the gouging will weaken the leather but I think because the leather is so thick and over engineered it should be okay. There is no strain on the leather it is just the flexing which should not wear it out. Of course only time will tell but so far there is no sign of failure or stretching.

[terrypen]

I posted this tutorial on BushcraftUK as well. During the discussions my old tutorial from 2007 was mentioned. It is interesting to see what has changed since then. http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23987

The biggest changes are the tooling and dyeing.

I pinned this to my Pinterest, just so you know it was shared.

Thanks for the great tutorial..

Terry

[mikesc]

Let's hope that he is OK with that pin, because it is his copyright, you should always get written permission from the copyright owner first..He can post it anywhere, legally and ethically, no one else can unless he says it is OK every time  before they do so ..I block pinterest members from being able to pin anything on any site I work on..If people "find" things on Pinterest less than 1 in a hundred go to the site that the pinner took it from.

 

Pinterest should be shut down, what it does is illegal, it is  crowd sourced Intellectual property theft.Set up by an ex-google employee ( with Google's blessing) to take images that people did not allow Google to take directly.They even offer to help pinners take images that are blocked on websites (from being pinned)  by the original image owner.It is only "sharing", if it was yours to begin with..

 

Notice pinterest never have any images pinned by the big guys ( with powerful lawyers on retainer ) like Image bank, or Getty images. They know that if they did, they'd be in court, heavily fined , with damages awarded against them and in jail, because IP theft is a civil offence, and a criminal offence, even in the USA.. in all states..and in many other countries of the world..

Edited September 19, 2019 by mikesc

[Northmount]

Replaced missing files provided by MagiKelly.  Also made a PDF of the whole tutorial.

Refillable Leather Book - Journal Tutorial Loads Of Pictures.pdf

 

[MagiKelly]

Thanks for saving another of my tutorials  

[Aven]

MagiKelly, thanks for creating and sharing this with us.

Northmount, thank you for creating a pdf.  It helps a lot.