My leather arrives saturday I Cnt wait to make mine. I have Travelers, many. But curious to start learning leather hides types, differences, qualities. Beautiful video great artist u are!
Excellent! I couldn't swallow the cost of the original shop bought one so I will have a go at this. I am going to use a paper corner cutter to put a 5mm rad on the corner. They are not designed for leather but four corners is a small job in the scheme of things. Thanks for making the video.
Enjoyed both versions of making the booklets. Thanks for making the explanation of the sewn version easier. You are right, life is too short for complicated.
Instead of having a separate closure loop would there be a problem with folding a single length of elastic in half and threading it through the centre hole to make a closure loop. knotting it off on the inside then taking the two ends and threading them through the top and bottom sets of holes, tying them together on the longer spine elastic that holds the notebooks in place, possibly at the bottom of the cover and out of the way?
Thank you so much, I was thinking of buying one but after I saw how simple the design of the midori I knew I could do this at home. I also like your little touch with closing elastic being in the spine rather than the back so that you aren’t writing over that. I’ll most certainly be ordering some leather and elastic once I have the money(broke highschool student).
I have been using my iPhone for years as a “Notebook” and I am over it. Electronic devices are good if you know what and where to look. I’m back to basics and loving. Thanks for the inspiration. Cheers
Good idea. How would I do one exakt or very similar but without the elastic? Asking because the elastic eventuellt diesel on one and Will need to be replaced(wich I never was a very big fan of)?
The planners I use has the measurements I would need for an A6 insert. I am looking to make a small travelers notebook for that. Unfortunately your field notes notebook is a bit too narrow, and the passport size is too narrow and short. I will tackle this during the summer. Thanks for the tutorial, it is saved and I have subscribed and liked for the algorithm
There is a gadget that rounds corners. It is usually used to round the corners of pages. I haven’t tried them before, but I suppose one that can round the corners of 15-20 papers at a time should handle the leather easily. Thank you very much for sharing this :)
Tools for cutting paper don't really work well for cutting leather, typically; it isn't just the thickness. Same as you wouldn't take scrapbooking cutters to a single layer of fabric and expect good results. You'll get better results using a sharp knife and a guiding curve the way he did it here.
Not the worst advice on how to pick passwords but far from the best. Use a password manager. It creates extremely long and extremely random passwords that are very very hard to crack. Then use one extremely long and extremely random password that opens the safe for all the other passwords. And you can write passwords down, don't worry too much about it. Put it in your notebook, just don't put on the cover or the index where it is. The potential attackers on your online security are online, in the World Wide Web. They won't rob you and steal your notebook and your phone to get into your accounts, because to get to all the passwords for your account they would need both.
This is all well and good, and you're obviously pretty skilled, but I wouldn't be able to live with it without polishing those edges; if you rather prefer unpolished, square-cut aesthetic, that is your prerogative, of course.
If I wanted a cover that would hold two or three inserts, I’d add extra holes horizontally across the “spine”, correct? Any suggestion as to how much width to add to overall width?
I wouldn't, becase extra holes in teh spine weaken the structure and casue the spine to bend. Here's what I'd do instead: app.box.com/s/vbberuirppg8hbfgewwi
I really enjoyed this video. I have now made my own leather notebook cover (I also made the notebooks for the inside, thanks for your web page too). I have watched this several times, and now that I have made my own, I have a question. Do you use an edge beveler to clean up the inside? Mine seem to be a bit ragged there and I have been trying to decide how to make it look nicer. Again, this is a great video. I have looked at almost all the others on RU-vid on this same subject and I keep coming back to watch yours.
I watched your video on making a travelers-style cover and I liked it. I am in the process of making one of my own. Then I thought I would look at what else you have. This particular video on making an index is one of those ideas that is so obvious that I wish I could say I thought of it myself. I didn't. I have often paged through a notebook looking for something I knew I wrote. This is just genius. Thank you.
