#screw punch

[moominquartz]

DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHERE I CAN GET A SCREW PUNCH?

Like a hole puncher, but with a screw?

One of the things I'm looking at says only Japanese-made ones will do, but I'm poor ;A; are there any stores that carry them in retail?

[jordanmakesabook-blog]

An Edition Means Additional Work

After I finished printing, Bernie told me that he wished I had printed "thirty more!" copies.  Since I've spent this week (and about 11 hours of just today) working on this project, I am so glad I didn't print thirty more copies of my text.  Besides the fact that I would have to order more cover stock, I think I would just go bonkers.  I am already going a little crazy.

I suppose this is all part of the "process."  One minute, I'm working on the project and thinking that this is all totally doable under the time limit I've given myself.  (I'd really like to finish this by Sunday night.)  The next minute, I'm nearly panicking, wondering what the heck I've done to myself.  The thing is, I can't not finish this.  I have put so much time and thought into this.

The first part of the week, I spent most of my time cutting paper, measuring for folds, and cutting and gluing the folds for the cover down.  Since then, I've measured for the ribbon.  (I've done more as well, but I'll get to that.)  To measure for the ribbon, I had to find the direct center of the cover, the intended folds, and the measure accordingly so the ribbon would be threaded at the right length the right number of times.  After I finished those measurements, I began punching holes with my Japanese Screw Punch.

The worst part about working with the screw punch is that I ended up covered in little red paper circles.

Initially, in my dummy, I had slits cut into the cover for the ribbon.  Not only would cutting slits have been more time consuming than using the screw punch, Bernie also told me that those cuts would have weakened the paper.  Over time, the cover stock would have been likely to rip due to the nature of a slit in the paper.  By using the screw punch, and creating a round hole, the paper is "burnished" in a way, keeping the cover strong and the ribbon still elegant.

This post was a lot longer than I had intended, so I'll post about the ribbon later.

But here's a teaser: