Dos and Don'ts of Buying Bookbinding Leather Online 

Thank you so much! Your videos are really a step up over all book binding channels, especially when it comes to leather! Keep em coming! Would love more videos about how to design and use the vinyl cutter as well!

The best way to explain as always!! Thank you so much for the details !! You’re the best!!

Thank you so so so so much! I love your bookbinding videos, they’re all so well explained, well edited and informative :)

Excellent information!!! Thank you for taking the time to make this video

Very helpful!! Clear step by step guide! Thanks!!

This was great, thanks for coming back with some new content 👍🏻

Thanks so much. I was looking on eBay and was a bit nervous of what to look for until now. Looking forward to the veg/chrome tan video

This was such a helpful video, thank you so much for assisting me in the beginning steps of my bookbinding journey!

I will always be indebted to you for these wonderful videos. I have gotten into bookbinding out of necessity...it is impossible to find high-quality, leather-bound copies of some of my favorite novels (particulary by George Eliot), so to quote Thanos "I'll do it myself!". Merci

First off I am glad to see you are back I have seen a couple of your videos and find then easy to understand. I am fairly new with my interest in book binding. I know there are different cover types, I've also seen a few other videos with different opinions and wanted to ask your opinion on vinyl as a book covering.? And what sort of fabrics are ok v not ok.

Informative as always thanks 👍

This was a huge help!!

nice nice, I knew it was supposed to be thin but I still wasn't sure what exact thickness to go with, and that conversion chart is also handy!

Thank you so so much !!

Just want to say that until this morning I’d never once considered book binding as something I ever wanted to do. I’ve just binged everything you have on the topic and I’m borderline obsessed. I want to make leatherbound versions of all my books! For someone just getting into the hobby, have you considered documenting what you think it might cost? You did a really nice summary on your to building video for what it cost to make your press, and I saw you got that leather for about $20. I’d be curious to see how you got your vinyl heat machine thing to print the foil designs and what that process or that machine costs. (Again, I’m just now learning about this stuff so I don’t know what it’s all called!)

If possible would you be able to make a video on how you use your cricut in terms of book binding and which model you'd recommend? I haven't been able to find any specific videos about it :)

I didnt even know that I needed this video, wow

You’re the man, thank you

Your projects look like fun. The spiderman book looked very cool.

Thank you so much for this video, it is exactly what I've been looking for!! I have a question, and I'm not quite sure where to ask it, so I'll ask it here, but have ya'll come across flipback/dwarsligger books? I'm looking to print & bind some for myself, but information on them is very scant in this regard; i'd love to hear your thoughts and tips for them, thank you so much!!!

Thank you so much.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Good morning, I'm writing from Switzerland. I've been a bookbinder for 13 years, and I've never used leather by choice, as it goes against my ethics regarding animals. However, this doesn't mean I didn't appreciate your video; it was informative. Thank you.

thank you so much! i was looking at leather at my local craft store and was unsure about it. i'm glad i didn't get it now it was way too thick! 😅

Great video!!! Offhandedly, is that a Menē ring? Very nice 😎

I was wondering if you're planning on how to bind books that are not a rigid spine? I have an old bible I'd love to recover. I've really enjoyed your videos and look forward to watching more. Thanks for sharing this is really awesome to watch. Cheers!😊

Great video. Do you think you could use the faux leather sold at fabric stores?

Hello, I would like to ask for some advise. I am planning to make a book cover jacket. I was wandering how thick and what kind of leather do I need to buy? This is my first time attempting to do leather work. 😊

Thanks for the advice. What is your experience with faux leather? Is it a suitable substitute? Does it tear easier to need more ounces? Love to hear your thoughts.

Have you ever tried using faux leathers? There really isn’t any leather supply stores near me but Joanns has a very thin and stretchy faux that looks and feels basically the same as leather

wonderful job, may I ask for advice since we are making unique book for parents?

Would thicker stiffer leather work if you weren't using it to cover a hard book? Like if you were doing a soft cover?

Goat skin nearly 0.8mm 0.9 is best for book binding and I can made French half binding.

Do you have any other crafting hobbies you can use the scrapes on? I noticed you testing some scraps for experimental bookbinding but they were perfectly square so did you buy a leather Hyde just for tests?

Is there any faux leather on Amazon that would be okay? I don't really want to use real leather, and I can't tell what would be a good, cheaper alternative.

Hi. Would you make a video showing your Spider-Man binded books, please?

we don’t have here any leather thinner than 0.8 mm thickness 😭😭😭 even the machines can’t thin them more than that will they work ???

What about imitation leather ? Have you ever tried with that ?

Have you ever tried faux leather?