I broke my woodburner doing it, but I was still excited to find that I could engrave/melt records and that I could cut/melt them into squares and drill/melt holes in the side to allow for stitching. It makes the edges weapon-like, but those can easily be sanded down with an electric sander. The sander is also capable of rounding the corners.

I, of course, don’t follow directions very well, so my stitching will frighten most any legitimate bookmaker. But I kind of like it.

I finally decided that I will teach those apprenticeship kids how to make their own sketchbooks and then every week, I will show them a new process. We’ll go out that first day and pick out our covers from the cardboard boxes that have been thrown out, curbside. Brooklyn trash contains the best boxes and have the coolest vegetable and fruit and soy prints that cover them.

I’ve been warned that introducing middle school kids to box cutters and x-acto’s and stitching needles can be dangerous, but I figure I’ll just kick them out if they start stabbing each other.

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