I love my micrometre.
It is the only way to ensure a good, consistent onlay, and the first picture demonstrates the thickness I have found to work best for onlays.Full goatskins used for covering upto certain sizes I now get split to .7-0.75 ...I have found the 0.6 most people get it split to is just too thin, and may compromise strength.
The mosaic style of dying, cutting-out,and onlaying in a grid or other pattern, is a technique worth further exploration....
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hi gavin - nice to "meet" you. i would love to list a link to your blog, and i'm excited to start following your blog.... bookbinding is something i wish i knew a lot more about. and i am blown away by the work on your website!
thanks same here!
the work on the website is 3 years old
still waiting for our guys to rebuild it....
thats why the blog is so useful for someone like me...its so easy to use
g
awesome. i look forward to seeing the new work here!
the url for our blog is
http://holleeanne.blogspot.com/
thanks!
Deirdre Thompson.
I am using a Brockman to pare the leather with but I am thinking of getting a shafix, any thoughts?
do it , i used a brockman when i started , but i find the sharfix a better engineered machine.
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