DIY Hard Cover Bookbinding

Here's what you'll need!

INSTRUCTIONS:

DIY Bookbinding

MATERIALS
2 sheets of letter-sized paper
PVA glue
Paint brush
Thread
Paper for pages (color and texture of your choice)
Book binder's board
Sheet of paper - will be cut down to 5 in x 4 ⅔ in

Tools:
Bone folder
Awl
Thick needle
Ruler
Pen
Craft knife
Cutting mat

INSTRUCTIONS
Cut the cover board out of book book binder’s board, cutting two rectangles 5 in x 4 ⅔ in and one rectangle 5 in x 1 in.
Using a paintbrush and PVA glue, glue down the boards to a piece of letter-sized paper. Make sure they are evenly spaced and that the smaller spine piece is placed in the center.
Cut off the 4 corners of the letter-sized paper. Cut four slits, one on either side of the width of the spine piece, on the top and bottom of the page.
Fold over and glue all of the flaps and using a bone folder tool smoothen them flat. You should now have a complete cover.
Cut the pages for the book to 8 in x 5 in. Make as many pages as desired.
Stack all your pages and make sure they are all flush. Then fold them in half vertically.
Using an awl tool, poke two holes down the spine of your pages.
Thread your needle and sew the centers of the pages together.
Out of the second piece of letter-sized paper, cut a rectangle 3 in x 6 in. Glue the outside of the spine of your pages and stick it to the rectangle. You should have a slight overhang on the top and bottom.
Glue the spine of the pages and stick it to the spine of your cover.
To create a clean looking inside of the cover, trace the cover onto a sheet of paper and cut it out.
Fold and cut the inside cover in half. Glue it down to either side of the inside cover.

MUSIC
Fur Elise
Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc.

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Fergus Burnett

[danthe-plant]

the weird part of this, is that i wasnt even interested in watching this, but with the music and the speed of the video i just watch it all. i actually enjoyed that.

[m.m.]

Sea lemon fans having a heart attack...

[danaanthereal]

This is not the way to bind a book (I have created many). Please, if you want to learn go find Sea Lemon or someone else, do NOT follow this, it's incorrect even down to the measurements.

[Safinsa]

Coming from a graphic designer, that's probably the worst way to bind a book i've ever seen.

[alenavesela]

Whoever made this video, dude if you want to make tutorials at least educate yourself!

Horrible advice... Saying as a book and graphic designer. That´s not how you make a functional book...

[emilyxx]

Anyone here after watching Sea Lemons video 😂

[BexMcInulty]

Wow. I have a shop for self-made books. This is terrible. Not even my first book looked this atrocious

[vhrilke]

I love the background music lol. Classical with pop

[mynamesmatthew]

Sea Lemons is better you just speed like it's a race but Sea Lemons actually like says the things you have to do

[nichelle]

Oh nooo. It's funny how I feel like I have ZERO confidence in teaching this skill but my god. This is not how you do it.

[DangitronepasVI]

lol i dunno, just stick cardboard together with PVA glue or something -Buzz Feed Nifty

[ruchashankaran]

Please go and see how SeaLemon does it! Unlike these people 🙄 who don't even know what they are doing!

[megalovepeace]

Lot of people seem to be insulting this technique. I liked sea lemon too. But this seems decent enough for a regular civilian like myself. smh

[paulmccullough]

how are people still fooled into thinking that these things are actual legitimate projects being made? they are just slapped together "things" with slapped together videos to suck people into to watching them thinking that they might learn how to make an actual item. it is frustrating how many people get drawn into the sham. and it is only when people wise up and stop falling for it that they will stop making this crap.

[mackenziedelacruz]

Hi, bookbinder here, this is wrong. Like....just everything about this is terrible and wrong and the measurements are wrong and the way you made this is wrong and I just....please don't misinform poor people like this.
And from a just YouTube watching perspective....you didn't teach anything??? There's nothing to follow and the video and description don't even match??? Who's idea was this!?

[HandmadeCactusBindery]

You could bind a better book with a stapler! My face contorted in pain throughout this video. And the clown music is accurate

[alviart]

It is easy way so bind a book hard way to bind a book gives the book amazing look

[NoNamae_]

Thanks now I know what to do to finish my project.

[darkandstormymama]

Extremely poorly made. Sea lemon has better techniques and instructions but also a better finished product. Making your own books just takes practice. I don't even stitch bind personally, I prefer perfect binding because it's simple and looks very clean

[xtxpxhx]

I'm not sure if i like thsi version of Beethoven tho...
anyhow, go and listen to the original
you won't regret it!