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Ensor•Skulled Bindery

@ensorskulledbindery

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/enˈsôrsəl/ verb to enchant; to fascinate.
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Starting to get into book/fanbinding like:

"I've done the thing!! And I have immediately learned I should have done more research before doing the thing!!"

"(but fuck yea if we didn't do it anyway!!)"

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An Update: I have Improved upon the thing!

#it's still chisel trimming#it's partially down to ensuring your blade has properly made contact with the textblock#partially really making sure your blade is flat to your straight edge#and reaaaaally making sure your blade is sharp (and stropping it every couple of passes)#I have now sucessfully trimmed three smaller textblocks!! :D
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I have attained a beast!! First ever laser printer (and a color printer as well, woo!!)

Bad news: after only printing 3 signatures, she has already given me an alignment issue...

I have gifted her this {BITE} sticker to hopefully appease her crave for choosing violence

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Update: I only needed one additional re-alignment then managed to print 10 signatures without issue.... I'm taking that to mean she was appeased with her violence sticker

#and I now have both the author copy and gift copy fully printed!
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I have attained a beast!! First ever laser printer (and a color printer as well, woo!!)

Bad news: after only printing 3 signatures, she has already given me an alignment issue...

I have gifted her this {BITE} sticker to hopefully appease her crave for choosing violence

#we shall see if this works when i go to print more later tonight#to be fair the non-misaligned papers she printed are very pretty#but my inkjet i've had for about 7 years has rarely if ever had an issue#and first session of using this gal she has chosen to call me names#fanbinding#my post
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Its finally done!!!

After getting back into BBC's Merlin recently (read: a couple months ago) I realized I no longer trusted streaming services to still have it available long term and managed to buy a complete DVD box set.

But because the slip case had quite a bit of wear to it (and due to some minor scopophobia) I made it a box that looks like a book!

(More rambling info & video under cut)

#opting to put this here as well because I used bookbinding knowledge and tools#this fella even got a fake headband!#....kinda#it counts in my book lol
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Aaaaand typesetting & printing is finally done!!

21 signatures and only had two reprint pages needed -- which thankfully let me catch another formatting issue I'd missed despite my 20 checks and rechecks :))))

Unfolded it already measures half an inch thick, so I guessed right on what the finally spine thickness will be 👌 (assuming the swell from thread isnt too bad)

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