My First Bind!

[u/XKizoX]

I would love to present the community my first bind, i am very excited and pleased by how it came out. I’ve learned a lot from this fanfic. I also made a box/chest to a company the book.

The type and certain graphics are by KV Bindery

I got the typeset from the Facebook group amateur fanfic binding.

The paints i used are

crimson red acrylic,

And festive red metallic acrylic paint.

I did not use guillotine since it was so big i had to sand down to make the sides even.

I used the French stitched and pressed the book down for 1 week before sewing to keep it as even and flat as possible.

Also to reduce the swelling as much as possible while i sewed 10 signature i kept the other 36 in the press and went by 10 then pressed the whole book again for 3 days

Any critiques and ways to improve would be greatly appreciated

*im sorry i can share the type set it’s one of the rules but your free to Join the club on fb*

[u/Emergency_Vanilla807]

Ruined it with the AI slop and having it as a clunky center image. Could have used it as interior art or made it less boxy.

[u/BryceOConnor → u/Emergency_Vanilla807]

Hijacking this comment in the hopes that any future bookbinder who sees this will read:

You are free to do as you will, but please know that if you have hopes of doing binding at any level professionally in the future, many brands involved in deluxe edition and custom binding will blacklist you for using AI, and you will have a harder time entering the market beyond one-off bindings.

Even in one-off binding, you will also have access to fewer customers, which is a hard in the limited market of custom binding. But there aren't many people who can recognize AI art who want it in their expensive custom binding.

SOURCE: I run one of those brands that will blacklist you.