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Leather pulls hard on the sides of the board as it dries, and needs extra paper lining to pull the board back to a flat shape
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Shaping the bands on the spine with band nippers
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Break is over! Pasting out the leather, scraping the paste off, and pasting again so the paste completely penetrates
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While the paste cooks, I play with my cats
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Cooking wheat paste: a highly refined Japanese variety called "Gin Shofu"
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Determining placement of the raised bands on the spine
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Spine is sanded to a near-mirror finish
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The biggest piece of leather I have ever pared on the Brockman
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Paring leather strips for full leather presentation box
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Tooling stove, with center tools, lettering pallet, and single line wheel
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To practice gold tooling, sometimes I make little side projects like this leather bracelet
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