Thank you very much for your video! It helped me tremendously as I’m working on my first rebinding for my Bible. I did use a oscillating grinder for the corners. It worked out great! I don’t know if this would help anyone, but I did use a cake frosting spatula to spread out the glue for my liner. It worked awesome! ~God Bless~ 🐑🩸🕊🦁
Great videos! 1. How much is a full, half, etc yap? 2. When shopping for leather for outsides and liners, how do you determine what thickness/weight/density is best for a Bible? 3. When should one use an inside piece of [some odd material?] In between the liner and outside?
If you haven't found the answers yet, here's what I've learned so far. I'm new (finishing my 2nd rebind now), so I could be wrong but hopefully it helps. 1. Full yap just means the "hangover" of the covers from each side touch eachother so you can't see the "block" (the actual bible pages) Half yap, semi yap, etc are just variations of "almost touching but leaving a gap". 2. 2oz Goat skin covers (roughly .8mm to 1mm thick, 1-1.5oz lambskin liners 3. The inside piece basically just adds stiffness. If the "floppiness" of having only the goatskin/lambskin is too floppy for your liking put a "backing" on your liner. My first one I did this with the binding cloth (the cheese cloth looking stuff). I mainly did it because I got cheap leather off ebay that is super stretchy so I was trying to give it some rigidity as far as stretching more than I was trying to make it less floppy. I've mainly learned from watching Frost Leather, this channel, and the short videos SDG Leather has (he only has 2 showing his process, and they aren't step by step like these of Frost's). SDG does the liner "backing", and after a bunch of searching, I just happened to find someone reviewing an SDG rebind, and he mentioned that SDG put a .5mm bonded leather backing on to stiffen it up. So the short answer is: Use a .5mm bonded leather backing if you want a stiffer cover that doesn't flop as easily. Or use the binding cloth if you just want something in between. The binding cloth method is something I just made up, so I haven't done it to a bible thats been used regularly afterwards to see how it holds up, but there's no reason to think it would degrade/break down anymore than when it's used for binding the spine. Hope that helps if you're still interested/wondering.
Im glad i found this channel. I only just started learning how to bookbind, but gonna keep practicing. There is a KJV Bible I just got from a used bookstore and the spine is off from the front. I also wanna give it a pretty leather cover of my own making.
Ty for sharing.I have been looking for a solution for a well loved Bible I have been trying to find a solution for the shedding cover this is great inspiraion. Thank you..
I'm actually about to upload my FIRST ever time lapse which will show the entire rebinding process as well as instructions. It will also have a list of supplies and tools in the description. Should be up today sometime.
Beau can you or are you able to do a vid about stamping the leather or putting an engraving on the bible like a cross or sword or a vid of how you put the celtic trinity stamp on your bible? Love your vids and tutorials, by the way, thanks!!
I am making leather wallets in bulk, all the wallets are having the corners exactly like the one you shown in the video, everytime while making the pleats, the corner of each wallets looks different. I want the corners of the wallets to be consistent, is there any machine available to make such pleats (exactly like the one shown in the video). Or any other alternate ways to make those pleats
I usually use a thicker leather, like a 3-5 oz.leather, for my liner and a thinner leather, between 1-2 oz. leather, for my cover leather. Using the thicker leather as my liner gives the binding more stability and rigidity and using a thin leather for my cover means that I don't have to skive that much.
Thank you for the tutorial! How does one get rid of residual glue stains (that have dried) on the liner without damaging the leather? I am afraid of using anything but a slightly damp cloth.
Is there some bible rebinder code that I don't know about? You have to use random objects for your radii and have a hand tattoo? haha I just started rebinding, but Ive watched a ton of your videos and Frost leather. You and I both have wedding ring tattoos, and frost has some tattoo that goes on his hand also. As well as Post Tenebrus Lux has his whole hand covered haha And both you and Frost use random objects for your corner radii. I dont know about PTL, but I'd assume he does since it seems to be a requirement lol I'm an engineer, so Ive been trying to do it by the numbers and I'm 0 for 2 so far. My first problem was, I only left 1/4" per side difference between liner and cover (I'll be fixing that on my next attempt), so I didn't have enough fold over. But my second problem is my corners aren't smooth and uniform once folded over. I thought since I'm leaving a 1/4" difference, my radii would be 1/4" different. So a 3/4" radius on my liner, 1" radius on my cover. Should work, right? Nope. Now I realize my error is trying to do it by the numbers, instead of grabbing to random round objects from the garage lol
The liner leather can be any leather you can buy that you like. I typically like to use a thicker cowhide as my liner leather. I buy almost all of mine from eBay.
I have a KJV bible which is using paste down liner being glued to its French Morocco leather cover. Recently, I found the paste down liner is starting to go off. What is the best way to repair it?
If you are rebinding a hardcover text block into a softcover leather binding, you just need to ensure you are using a smaller rounded edge for you liner and be sure to include enough yapp so the squared off edges of you book block don't end up sitting on top of the fold over
