Heard a buddy say he uses a bone folder on every single page.

I always thought those were just for scoring paper. But he uses it to crease each fold after sewing too. Anyone else do that or am I missing something?

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janarivera8h ago

My friend once watched this old bookbinder at a flea market run a bone folder over every single page in a stack of old maps. Took him like an hour for maybe twenty pages. Said it was how his granddad taught him, call it muscle memory or whatever @noahmartin.

noahmartin8h ago

Actually I used to work at a print shop back in 2013 and we had this old guy named Sal who would do that exact thing. He'd take a bone folder and run it down every single fold in a book, even pages that were already glued into the spine. The boss hated it cause it took forever but Sal swore it made the books lie flatter. I tried it once on a little zine I was making and I gotta say, it did feel nice and crisp like the pages were really settling in. But honestly I wonder if it's just a habit thing, like how some people tap their pencil before writing. Maybe it's just me but I think it's overkill unless you're working with really thick paper or doing some fancy shit.