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Learn Book Binding: Create a Case Bound Sketchbook

teacher avatar Dana Seeger, Artist, printmaker, educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Case Binding Intro video

      1:13

    • 2.

      The Project

      0:41

    • 3.

      Case binding Materials

      3:18

    • 4.

      Folding Pages

      4:43

    • 5.

      Marking holes for case binding

      3:40

    • 6.

      Punching Holes

      2:56

    • 7.

      Stitching the Signatures

      17:21

    • 8.

      Finishing the book block

      8:29

    • 9.

      Cutting Covers

      2:07

    • 10.

      Covering the Case

      14:13

    • 11.

      Attaching the block

      7:29

    • 12.

      Thank You

      0:25

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In this course, you will begin your book binding journey with a case bound sketchbook! Creating your own blank sketchbook or journal is a rewarding experience that will leave you amazed that you made a "book" just like you buy in the store! This workshop is perfect for those who have not made a book before, don't know what book binding is, or who have made other books, but have wanted to learn the Case Binding specifically. 

I will go in depth to show you materials, techniques and tips that will give you the confidence to finish the project: a case bound sketchbook. You will be able to go step by step, and customize your sketchbook at every turn. Whether you want to use it for outdoor sketching, life drawing sessions, ideas or as an exploratory journal, this is the method for you. It is versatile enough that you can create books in a range of sizes, with a range of papers and covers. 

Even with no experience, you will be sewing and gluing away, making your first sketchbook. The materials that you will need for this course include: 

Interior Paper for the sketchbook

Cover Paper (can be decorative scrapbook paper)

Sewing thread like a waxed linen, or button hole thread

Chenille or Tapestry needle

Awl or punch to make small holes in the paper

Cover board like illustration board or Davey bookboard (matte board can work too)

Elmer's glue or other PVA white glue

Brush for applying glue

Scissors and exacto blade for cutting paper and board

Mull or Super (starched cheese cloth)

Cotton twill tape or linen tape from the fabric store.

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Dana Seeger

Artist, printmaker, educator

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1. Case Binding Intro video: Hi, I'm Dana Harris Seeger. Welcome to case bound sketchbook. In this course, I am going to show you how to create your very own blank sketchbook or journal using the case binding method. Case binding is really cool because it looks like a traditional book. It's got pages. We're going to use blank sketchbook paper. That's really good for drawing or writing in your journal. We're going to use a hard cover. We're going to decorate it, cover it with decorative paper. We'll even show you how to do a different spine. This one uses book cloth to accet your book. This is going to be a really comprehensive bookbinding course. You don't need any prior knowledge or experience in bookbinding. It's going to be really fun. My goal is that you have a finished book by the end of this course. 2. The Project: The project for this course is a case bound sketchbook. It's going to be hardcover. It's going to have blank pages which you can decorate during or after the class, and it's going to be covered in paper or book cloth of your choice. This book is 6 " by 9 ", but you can make your book as large or small as you want. The concepts are the same, it's going to be up to. 3. Case binding Materials: The material that we're going to use for book binding today are paper. This is nice drawing paper, pretty thick, 90 pound. And this is bookboard or Davy board. This is what we're going to use for our covers of our book and the spine. Is this just an old piece of cardboard that I use for punching my holes and you'll see that in a minute. Because when you stitch the signatures, the papers together, it's easier to pre punch. That helps. To actually do the punching, we use an L or a scribe, has a pointy end. Some of them taper a lot more, but this is one that's really easy to poke through. This is just cotton twill tape that you can get at the fabric store and we're going to use this to help keep the signatures all bound together. Also mall or super, which is also going to be on the binding of the spine to keep all those pages stitched and glued together along the spine. In order to stitch, we need something thread. This is waxed linen thread. It's really durable. It's not super duper thick, but it's thick enough that it's not going to break with all the pulling and tugging, opening and closing the book is doing. To stitch, I have an assortment of large chenille needles which are sharp, but they have a large eye. That's really helpful for sewing the pages together. Scissors are always helpful for cutting tapes or cutting the mole. Bone folder, you'll use a lot. You'll use it to smooth out the creases to fold the book covers when we cover this with some paper. A utility knife is good for cutting the bookboard. I'm also working on the self healing mat because when you cut, you don't want to cut onto a surface that you like. Self healing mats are really good for cutting bookboard or if you need to cut your paper down. A decorative thing that you can use that traditional books have, but it's not required as a headband and this is just a little piece that you cut and put at the top of your book block just right here when it's finished and it just gives it a nice finished and decorative look. I'll show how to do that. Then we can talk about covers after we stitch and glue, the book block signatures to get. 4. Folding Pages: First, I'm going to fold all my pages into groups of six. When you just fold, if you have just one page that's folded like this, this is just one folded page. That's called a folio. A folio is just one folded page. Then when you have a group of folios, in this case, there's six folded pages. That's called a signature. And we're going to be sewing the signatures together and then sewing each of the six signatures in one book block. Let's go. When I'm folding the pages, I group two, three, four, five, six. I'm grouping six pages together. Six folios are going to make up one signature. I tap it and squeeze it so that it's even. I lay it flat and then fold it away from me. I line up the edges, I press with my fingers, and then I take my thumbs and crease that fold. Then this is where your bone folder comes in handy. You can take the edge of your bone folder, which isn't really made of bone, but it used to be and crease it like that. Now it's a nice tight crease. I can keep making signatures that way until I have whether I'm making a stack of books or just one book, I will create all the signatures first and then we sew them together. As I'm folding here, I'm going to be talking about how I arrived at this paper size. I wanted to make my book a pretty easy size and that turned out to be 6 " by 9 " because paper, the standard drawing paper comes nine by 12. When I fold it in half, that equals 6 " by 9 ". I purchased pre cut 12 by nine inch drawing paper, and now I'm folding it in half because each of these groups of pages that get stitched together need to be folded and you stitch in that spine or that little groove. If you wanted to make your book a little bit smaller, you could cut the paper in half to six by nine and then your book would be 4.5 by six. It's up to you, but you are constrained a little bit by paper size and the materials that you have. I also got book board from the store and I could cut that down. I think it comes in sheets of either 18 by 24 or 32 or 30 by 40. I think MAP board comes in that size. But if you find a bookboard that suits you or a crescent board or illustration board that you want to use, by all means, use the size that you have. So here I am gathering groups of six sheets and if I were to fold one of those in half, that would be a folio. I as I'm folding a group of them together, that's a signature. Now I'm using the bone folder to crease the spine of those so that they lay nice and flat and my book doesn't bubble up because you really want it to be nice and flat. So I just keep doing this as many times as I need to to make my book as thick as I want it depends it's up to you how thick you want it, how many signatures you want. If you want a thin sketchbook, something that's lightweight, you can use less. I'm using six groups of six 5. Marking holes for case binding: I'm starting out by marking where I am going to punch my holes in a template. This template is the same size as my paper, although it doesn't have to be, just has to be as tall as my signatures. Then I lay it on top of each group of signatures. I want to put something underneath before I punch, however, like the piece of cardboard scrap. Okay. Then I'm going to take my all and punch holes through the dot, the mark in the template and all the way through the signatures. I've made a template. It's just the same size piece of paper. I've got some holes, dots drawn, and those dots align with where I want to punch my holes for stitching. The first one is first and last top and bottom are always a half an inch half an inch from the top and half an inch from the bottom. That way we can take the needle in and then also pull it out. Then these holes, there's six more holes because of the height. I'm working on a 12 by nine piece of paper folded in half is six by nine. Because of the dimensions of my tape, the thread is going to get stitched over the tape. I need to make the holes wide enough so that they'll trap the tape actually on the outside. One thing I didn't mention is binder clips. I love these binder clips or you can use those big bulldog clips for keeping your paper from misaliging and sliding out. These are really helpful. I use at least two, but you can have more if you want. And once we have our holes measured, I found the center of my paper, and then I just made the first set of holes equidistant from that center point out, and then another set of holes down on the bottom, equidistant from each other. I want those to be spread out. I don't want them to be too close together because I want the stability. So this one is, let's see. From the bottom, it's 1.5 " and two and a quarter inches. Then that one's a half an inch or thereabouts. This one is about four and eight, and then five. And seven and seven and three eighths and then a half an inch. That's roughly the dimensions. But as long as they're equal, these are equal distant from each other and these are half an inch from the top and bottom. 6. Punching Holes: Three. Then I'm going to punch the holes right in the middle of the fold. I'm keeping that right in the fold. It's my all. I'm going to punch through all the layers. The reason I use a template is because that way, I can take the template off and put it on the next signature, and they're all the same. All the holes will align. When I go to sew, it's not going to be hard to find the holes. One thing I will say is sometimes it doesn't always punch exactly through the spine and that's okay. If you can't set the hole on the backside, then sometimes what I'll do is I'll just wiggle the through a little bit more because when you punch it, it's not going to go totally through. Wiggling it a little bit will enlarge the hole. That will help when the needle has to go in through the spine. I'm just going to keep punching. 7. Stitching the Signatures: All the holes are punched and they're all lining up, and now we're going to stitch it all together. Each signature is going to get stitched one at a time, and then the signatures will get linked together. And we will use our tapes, cut some cloth tape that will help keep them together and attach to the book, and then also our mole, which will get glued onto just the spine once the signatures are all sewn together. The first thing I want to do is cut the tapes and I try to make them about an inch to an inch and a half over the spine. Then when you wrap it around, same thing about an inch and a half. They'll get trimmed later, but that'll help you keep them secure while you sew. I'm going to cut three, same size. No. It's in the box. It's just blue painters tape. Thanks. Again, longer is a little bit better because you'll get trimmed later. This is just that cotton twill tape. I'm going to take the first signature. I'm lining the tapes up with these two holes. Remember when we did our punching, we had one on the end and then a group of two, a group of two and a group of two. That is where the tapes are going to go. You're going to lay them on the first signature. Then I take some blue tape. Blue tape is nice or frog tape because its pulls off, but it doesn't leave a residue. So make sure whatever tape you use doesn't pull the paper. Now we're going to take our linen thread. You can buy just regular linen and wax it with a little bees wax. Cake by taking the thread, pre wax thread and just running it through the wax like that a couple of times. And that helps just make it a little bit stickier so it stays put when you so, but also more durable. You're going to multiply the length of your signature by how many signatures you have. If I've got six signatures, one, two, three, four, five, six, then I'm going to take the length or the height of my book because it has to go across that back and forth six times. One, two, three, four, five, six, I'm going to add a few more inches so that I can have a tail for tying on and and then take one of my needles. These are chenil needles which have a big eye, but they're really pointy. They're good for stabbing. If you have tapestry needles, that'll work too, but they're not always as pointy. They're dull. I like the pointy ones. Because just in case you didn't poke all the way through or your holes big enough, the needle will help stab it through. Then you thread your needle and I double it over just with a couple maybe a foot of a tail like that. Then I use these binder clips to keep the pages from moving around while I so And you can put them wherever it's comfortable on one on each end, but you just want to keep the signatures, the half together. You just open it up so that it's totally open, you can start at either end, but you're going to start from the outside and go in. This is the outside of the book. This is the spine. This is going to be one of the end sheets, and this is the inside. I'm going to start over here and poke it in If you turn it over, you can see it's coming through. You're going to pull it through and you're not going to go all the way. You're not going to pull it all the way through. You're going to leave three or 4 ". Then you're going to stitch. Using a running stitch, you're going to go in in in each of the holes on the outside, you'll see that each of the tapes, you'll go over the tape, this linen cloth. Get yourself situated and you start sewing. Poking it in. And make sure you're not making a big knot on this end. I'm going to catch the tape when I go back down. I'm going to pull it through, pulling it through the bottom. Making sure that the tape is caught and we'll be adjusting these as we go along, don't worry too much if they're a little bit loose then back out. And in I sure the tape is caught. Oh and and then one more time in one more. At this point, you've got one signature sewn. I take this end and this end and give just a little tug. You won't tug too much or you could risk cutting your paper to the holes. Then the next step is going to be to add another signature. And To do that, we're going to fold this one in half, just like this. I'm going to take the binder clip sandwich this signature, and then we're going to take just right off the top, slide it under so that the tapes flop over. Make sure it's lined up. If you've accidentally flipped it, it might not line up, just flip it back and make sure that lines up. Then we're going to open this one up. Going to grab it and clip half of the next signature, and then the whole one that we just dip. That's the way I like to do it. Like that. Making sure that the spines are aligned. All right. Then we're going to do the exact same thing. In this next signature. You've already got the thread on the outside, so you're going to go in the outside. This is a little joining stitch and you can see underneath. Let me poke it. Back up. Give a little tightness. This is where the wax comes in handy because it will help that stick and not slide around. Then you're going to go back down, making sure that this tape again is under the thread. Let me go. And if your threads getting, you know, if it's starting to get shorter and shorter, just give a little pull and that'll lengthen the I'll give more working thread and less doubled over thread. Okay At this point, we have two signatures sewn together. One is joined at the bottom, and then the one at the top, when you come back out, you'll see that there's this tail here. What we're going to do to join the signatures together and make sure that it all stays together at the top is we're going to tie a square knot. We're going to take our end, a little tail and our working thread and give a little bit of a tug to each of them. Then we're going to tie a square knot, so we're going to go over under and gently tighten and then we're going to go under under and over. Just do the opposite of whatever you did before. And that's it. Then we can trim the tail. We'll cut your working thread. Trim this tail like that. Then we can carry on by adding the next signature. That's how you join number one and two, and then I'll show you how you join the rest of them till the end. We're going to clamp kettle stitch. Grab another signature, slide it under. Sure. Fine as lined. Open it up. Punch punch now going to go back that way. Same thing. If it's not going through, you might have to adjust your needle because sometimes when you punch you punch at an angle. I found that helps. If it's too loose, you can always go back and pull slide your needle under and give a little tug tighten. Okay, so now come out of this side. We're going to tug to tighten those guys. Then where this stitch this top stitch is a loop? We're going to take our working thread, slide it under that stitch from the inside out going out along the top of the spine and then pull. Then that forms a little kettle stitch, which is just a little loop that keeps these two signatures together. Now we can fold it. You see when you tighten it, then they can't move around like that. That's how we do the rest of them. Again, give him a little tug. Kettle stitch handing your mouth, can fold it if it's easier, but inside to out underneath that. Stitch that. Then we'll do the rest of the signatures and I'll show you how to do the next step. 8. Finishing the book block: Now that we're at the last stitch, I'm going to pull out the needle, tighten, then right here where we would normally do a kettle stitch, we are going to do that. But we're going to add one more step, which is to loop the needle back through and make a knot. Make sure it's squeezed tight and then do that one more time. I'm going to go back under the loop. And then through for a knot. You're going to knot it two times, basically just like you did at the head, and now you've tied it all off. Then we can trim just like we did before, put our needle away, and we're done with stitching. I'm going to keep the book clamped. This is the text block. I'm going to pull the tapes tight and then I'm going to put another blue tape here because that will help as we glue the spine to keep it as tight as possible. The next step is to get our glue out, and then we're just going to glue the spine. We're going to spread a lot of glue in here. The mole will help to hold that glue in so it doesn't ooze everywhere, and we're going to avoid getting glue on the edge. We're just going to try to get out on this. So blue tape. Pull pull and tape. Pull tight and tape. Pull tight and tape. Now it's all nice and cinched in, which is what the tapes are good for. At this point, I get a piece of scratch. Paper with gluing on. Then the binder clips are also nice at this point because they'll act like a little stand. However you want to do it or you can wedge it in between something, but I like to make it so that the spine stands up like this. Then we're going to get our glue out and a nice glue brush, which is just a hogs hair brush or you can use a chip brush doesn't matter. I'm just using Elmer's glue, which is a white PVA glue. You can easily mix this with water if you want to thin it out, but I don't for this purpose. We can also at this point, if you so desire, we can cut head bands, which these go at the top and bottom of the text block and they look really nice. They just keep everything looking clean and tidy. What we do if we want to make those is we just cut the piece, the width of the spine for the head and foot. We put gues on after the mal. You can buy this stuff from the moko making supplies. It's also handy sometimes if you want to put if you want to squeeze another uh what do you call it? Binder clip at either end because that keeps the mall from feathering up. You can do both or you can do just one end, probably just do one end. Then we're going to take our glue. I use a generous amount of glue, lots of glue, you're going to get it just on the spine. We really want to push it in there. More glue. Smushing it down in there and you'll see that the mole will start to absorb it and the glue, you won't see the holes of that cheese cloth anymore. That's what we want. We really want the glue to get in there. The nice thing about the PVA glue is it dries really flexible. Even as you open and close your finished book, it won't crack and snap apart. I like these stiff brushes because you can really push the glo down in the cracks. I get a generous amount just along with spine. It's going to seep into the signatures just a little bit, which is what you want because you don't want to see the separations of the pages. So once we've got the mole in there, put a little bit more glue at the head and foot. Put our header tape with this decorative side down, and you can see that you want it to stick up just a little bit. That's the head band. You can see the glue oozing out too. You don't need to add any more glue. I just stick it right on there. To the next one. But where'd you go? Make sure it looks good. So it's not where I wanting to go. So I'm going to add just a little bit more. G to this one. But I don't want to do on the sides. I just want to do on the spine. Then you just let it dry and often I'll take this binder clip and just squeeze the middle, which tends to be the part that has the most trouble staying together. And then set your little book up to dry for 20 minutes to an hour. Then meanwhile, we'll do the covers and we'll put the book together. 9. Cutting Covers: Three So here I am finding the grain of the board, and then I cut the height perpendicular to the grain. I'm cutting against the grain right now and I'm cutting the height, which is the nine inch length. I'm going to be cutting the six inch, the width in a minute along with the spine. But right now I'm just using a box cutter, a straight edge to keep my lines straight. I just take my time and I'm patient. It takes me a couple of slices to get through the board. But now I'm cutting the six inch measurement with the grain. I always want the grain of the paper and the bookboard to be vertical. That as it bends, if it warps at all, it's warping in the direction of the way that you're holding it and reading it and it doesn't try to force itself against that spine. I'm measuring again, the second cover, which is 6 " because my book is six by nine and I actually give a little bit more, it's six and an eighth and the top is so now you can see that it's going with the grain as I'm bending it, it folds more easily that way. So I give a little bit of excess about an eighth of an inch so that the spine or sorry, the covers stick out just a little bit over the pages, and the pages don't stick out over the spine. Here I am cutting the spine, which is the thickness, the width exactly of our book Block. 10. Covering the Case: I sheets covered. Spine. Here I am tracing around the cover board, leaving about an inch around the top, right, and bottom onto the cover paper. Then if you notice I draw a line right along the spine. That's because these covers are going to have a separate spine and the spine is going to be cut out of a bookcloth in a solid color. I like the way that looks as an accent, but you don't have to do that. If your paper is wide enough, you can cover the entire front, back cover, and spine in the same paper. I like to leave about an inch around the cover size so that you'll see that we fold the paper over the cover and we want to have some borders to make it easier to glue. Now I'm working on the spine. I have pre cut a piece of bookcloth. It is sort of an olive green color. And I'm making sure that it is, again, about an inch around the whole piece so that the glue will adhere well. Now I am working on the end sheets. These need to be the same size as your signatures. In my case, they are 12 by nine and I need two of them, one on each end. You don't have to do this part. You could use the first and last folio of your book block as your end sheets too. That makes it a little simpler, a little less complicated, but not quite as fancy. Now it's time to glue the covers. I've got the front and back here all cut out, laid out on newsprint because I'm going to be putting glue on it and I want to protect my work surface. Anything like newspaper, news print is a good idea. The best way to do it is to apply glue your white PVA glue to the bookbard itself. That way, when you hear the paper, sometimes it's harder to get the glue because it's moist. Sometimes it absorbs into the paper, especially if you're using a handmade paper or a thin paper. I always put the glue on the bookboard itself. You can see the spreading it pretty thickly over the whole board. I'm using a stiff chip brush or hogshairbush you can use because it holds a lot of glue. And I'm spreading it to the very edges, and then I'm going to turn the board over and place it onto my paper. Having your bone folder handies really helpful because you will be smoothing out the paper using the bone folder. Here I'm just doing it with my hand so that the glue will stick. You can see that I put because I'm doing a spine, a different spine, there's no bone folder. I'm going to place the paper along that edge, the spine edge. Here I am going with the bone folders edge, scraping all the excess glue, making sure there's no air bubbles. I'm trying to crease the paper because this is rather thick reads BFK printmaking paper. I'm trying to crease the edges around the bookboard because I will be wrapping the paper around. I'm going to do the same thing to the other one. Now, after I've got the car paper glued, I am creasing the corners because I'm going to be folding up the corners so you can see how I folded in the corners, which makes a nice clean edge and it doesn't look messy, it looks really clean and it also keeps everything neat and tidy. Glue is not squeezing out and you don't have a big bulky corner. This is the best way I found to do corners. If you have a really big thick paper, then precreasing with the bone folder is a really good idea. I'm going to be again using newsprint as a buffer between my work surface and the glue. It's really nice to have a bunch of newsprint newspaper phone book pages. You can see how much I move and take away the paper, I'll glue and then I'll move the newsprint so that I don't get glue on my paper. If you can help it, you really don't want glue on your book other than where you are trying to glue it the cover page to the cover board. So as much as you can try to protect that is a really good idea. I'm pressing down with my fingers and the bone folder, emphasizing those creases as well. I will do every corner just like this. Then I'll move on to the spine. Also using a wet wipe or paper towel rack to clean your bone folder in between. Each part will also help keep the glue from getting your book cover dirty, which can happen, especially if you're using white paper and you're using a lot of glue. Baby wipes or paper towels, handy, and lots of newsprint or wax paper is a good idea. Here I am now gluing the rest of the cover page. After you have your corner glued, the nice thing about this PVA glue is that it dries really fast generally. I'm putting glue on the rest of the edges, and then I'm going to fold them up and glue them, press them onto my board with my fingers and then with my golden folder. And you want to keep creasing. You don't really want big thick areas or big bubbles. Bone folders are really good for that because they just really get in there. You can see I'm using edge to really crease it. Like I said before, this is really thick paper. If you're using anything that's, nice and a little bit thinner, you might want to be a little bit more careful just with your creasing because you could rip it if the glue is wet. Sometimes those thinner papers, they can they can tear if they get saturated with the water based glue. Again, paper towels to clean everything up, and I'm going to do this with the remaining two sides of this cover, and then the other two or three sides of the back cover. Term The last step is going to be to glue the spine onto the spine paper and then attach the spine to the covers. Not that. And then put the book block, which is now dry in the whole cover case. First step I'm going to do using one of our sheets here is to put glue on the paper and then stick this down. This I love using scrap paper, magazines, phone book pages, things as gluing pens. It's good to have a lot of these before you get started because otherwise, then you can just remove them and you're not getting your nice book and everything all glued. After I put glue on here, There's minimal time when you can move this around. Get it right when you want it, right where you want it. Often I will make little marks. The distance between the spine and the covers should be at least two thicknesses. Even maybe a little bit more. But that way, your book has room to flex. And It doesn't pinch. Get really tight. No, put that upside down. Then just like we did before, a bone folder, smooth it out. And then I'll often take the folder and crease against the spine. That's the hinge part. Something like that. There's any little glue bits, you can use a smaller brush. Any parts that need a little extra glue. Small brush. Take your towel. Smooth it in. Before it dries, in two. Hold it up, just like we did with the covers. Crease Crease There we go. 11. Attaching the block: Three these are end sheets. You don't have to use end sheets. These are going to go like this. I can be decorative. You don't have to do that. You could just use the first and last page of our text block right here. Now it's nice and dry. We're going to peel it peel it away. Remember this is the mall then we're going to carefully peel our tape off to release or cotton tapes. Now we can trim those. Scissors are not very good. The same height as the mall. Same on the other side. Okay. Now it's time to put the book block in our case. I position it on the spine and then these are going to get glued to the covers, and then the end sheets get attached like that. You don't have to glue the whole page. I usually just put glue right at the very edge and then you'll notice it'll just stick up like that. We'll start over here. But it's heaven here and here and here and here. Then you just start putting some glue. Try not to get it on the page. It's probably the trickiest part of the whole. You can get it along the seam just a little bit because that's where the end sheets glue in. But this will help hold book block to the cover. If you didn't have an end sheet, you would just put glue over the whole thing and stick the first and last page down as an end sheet, which I've done lots of times. It's not quite as fancy. Over the whole sheet like this. It'll dry clear, even if you get it past the end sheet, it's not that big of a deal. I like gluing the covers rather than the paper because the covers are heavier, thicker so they won't warp or tear like paper might with all the glue. Is water based glue, so warp thinner papers like the end sheets. In put a little bit right here. You don't have to glue the spine in. In fact, you don't want to glue the spine in. You just want to create the hinge. Now that I have glue, I'm going to carefully lay my end paper. He smooth it out. Then I can grab my bone folder, and kind of crease it in there. And then read from the center out from the inside out. The idea is that it will glue just like that. Then if there's any extra glue that we didn't cover, what I do is take a piece of wax paper, put it in between the end sheet and the cover and the end sheet and the book block. Then that's how you'll press it to dry because otherwise it won't uh it won't. Like what? And it might stick. It's an hour under the next side. Same exact procedure. We're just going to keep this part together, put glue all around here. Then at the end we'll press it all together. And then when I press it, I make sure that everything is aligned. Spines sides. I put wrap some more this around, and then I press so that the spine is kind of sticking out and you just want to press it something heavy probably for a couple of days to ensure that the glue is totally dry and your hook is not going to warp on you. And that's it. 12. Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me along this case finding journey. I hope that this has helped you make your first case bound sketchbook, and I can't wait to see the results in the project postings. Thanks so much.