I did a couple bookmaking ones in this and it was nowhere near enough! (Btw, your printing work rocks)

I don’t know what it is with so many boomers treating their knowledge like a precious family recipe that you’re not related enough to learn. Literally pass on your wisdom you weirdos you’re gonna die

How influential is Apocalypse World?

This influential. (And I wrote this chart four years ago.)

www.designers-and-dragons.com/2021/11/02/t...

This was a great reminder to go check out the moving sale! I'm now trying to figure out how to fit toilet naming rights into my budget.

So goodbye Jim, and thank you. I don't think I'll ever meet someone quite like you again. The bookbinding community will be poorer without you.

Jim would keep his books for years and sometimes he would just undo a bunch of his work, make it a little better, and put it back together. It's something I think about all the time when I'm less than satisfied with how something has turned out.

Jim was always happy to not only teach others but was also incredibly eager to learn from anyone. While toolmaking was the main reason I went to learn from him the biggest lesson I took away was that it's okay to go back in and fix a book that you weren't happy with.

Jim also made paper from old firehoses by bleaching the fibers in the sun for years. He fermented hemp underneath his house to later make into paper. As a 27 year old at the time I wasn't used to the idea of just leaving some things for a few years before you could use them.

Part of that was making bone tools which are frequently used in bookbinding. Jim lived in northern Idaho, known for its elk and moose and he get bones from local hunters or pick up road kill to amass a frankly startling amount of bones. Jim made the finest bone folders in the world.

I use hartney greymont in eastern mass and they only charge me if they need to trim the trees. It might be different for you since you have waaaaaay more tress than I do but it might be worth a shot.

I figured out how to cure shark skin using some dubious liquid! And used a drill in a way it was not meant to be used. Thankfully safety equipment was used.