Share Your Binderary 2023 Thoughts!

[chubsthehamster]

Binderary 2023 is officially here, and we'd love to hear from you! We've prepared a list of daily prompts to get you thinking about all things fanbinding this month - inspiration, materials, process - you name it, we got it.

Feel free to reply to this post with the date and an answer to the following prompts:

1. What does Renegade mean to you?
   
2. Favorite Fic
3. One thing you'd like to learn more about
4. Paper!
5. Cloth!
6. The Glue War
7. Machines (Printers, Cricut, etc.)
8. Favorite binding technique
9. Your Best Tip/Trick
10. Favorite Detail
11. Spines
12. Mistakes/Fails
13. Process
14. Storage Solutions
15. Your Workspace
16. Dust jackets and covers
17. Published inspiration
18. Illustrations
19. Favorite Tool
20. Favorite part of the binding process
21. Inspo: The binder that inspired you!
22. Inspo: The fic that inspired you!
23. Author spotlight: Someone you've bound
24. Author spotlight: Someone you'd like to bind
25. Favorite bind by you!
26. Favorite bind by someone else!
27. First bind
28. Latest bind

Answer every day or just on the days that strike your fancy! Either way, we look forward to hearing all about your binding adventures~

Comments

[robinseggbindery]

QOTD: Paper!

I suppose you could talk about any paper, but I’m going to get up on my soapbox and talk about Mohawk paper! I love the Mohawk Via 70T for my textblocks, be it natural or ivory. It’s definitely thicker than most use (105gsm or so), but the lack of bleed through and the quality make up for it imo. I won’t go about 500 pages in a single volume with it, but I don’t like terribly large books anyway; difficult to read and travel with, and by the time a fic gets up to 600 pages, you can split it into two 300 page volumes with ease, and not have either be too small.

[nocturnus33]

Not sure what Mohawk is, my english is not that good ;D, but sounds like my good old 104 gsm cream bond paper.

[robinseggbindery]

This is Mohawk! It's a specific paper brand that I like to use for text blocks. It's very similar I would think! I just use smooth texture instead, but the gsm sounds similar!

[nocturnus33]

I think it's more or less the same, but there are so many colours!

[chubsthehamster]

OOOOOH I'll have to check out Mohwak!! That thicker paper would be so nice for the fics with art in it...

[robinseggbindery]

converts you to the dark side (:<

I like it a lot! I posted a picture of an example of how art doesn't have as much bleed through on Tumblr/Discord. It definitely chonks up your books, but I personally think it's worth it.