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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#45-54 Wolves Upon the Coast Not the most complex binding I've ever done, but this was a fun little project for my tabletop group. A friend did all of the typesetting and I got as creative as I could given the circumstances

Ten hand bound pamphlets of Wolves Upon the Coast

The spines of ten pamphlets. There is a leather strip running along the spine and there are simple beaded decorations

The interior of the pamphlets. These pages illustrate various tables and rules for the game.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

As with all things, you can fairly blame this on Schumer and Jeffries.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There is a snowball's chance in hell that everyone could rally behind Troy Jackson, whose policies are practically the same. But he would have to stop being selfish and drop out first.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It helps that most of the dialog is done by one person. Also DE has an army of lunatic fans who catalog all of the voice lines in searchable databases. I only had to doctor a few lines.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I would really try to remove the glue if you can. Maybe put the book in a press to keep them in place while you're working. If you do that, a strip of cloth is a great addition for strength. If you can't get the glue off, a cloth will only hold the book together after the spine breaks

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

No problem! If you are actually separating the pages, you will need to re-glue them or they will fall out. I would recommend looking at a video of how that's done. youtu.be/bV3hmgbauCE

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Not this one. He's a bastard. That's why I'm giving him to you.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

And if you don't have PVA, white school glue is a pretty close substitute

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Also be careful not to separate the pages while you're at it, though that can be fixed

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I would scrape the glue off first and then reapply a layer of PVA before putting the cover back, but sure! Just gently heat the glue and reapply it

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I mean it only had like 80 views for the longest time. I'm not sure how anyone found it

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I never did share my new boys. Halley and Herschel are still around, but say hello to Kuiper, Sagan, Fowler, and Fenrir!

A brown rat being held in one hand. His name is Kuiper

A white rat being resting his chin on my hand. His name is Sagan.

A dirty blonde rat on a bed. His name is Fowler

A piebald rat being held in a small hammock. His name is Fenrir.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Thank you. I have no mice for you, but please accept a rat as a token of gratitude

A large brown rat held by the scruff of his neck. The rat looks very unintelligent.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I wish I could follow republicans around with a camera without them getting pissy and breaking character

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

No worries, I'm glad my three days of fugue state made someone smile

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The full video is a bit longer and you can find it here. I don't often do videos like this, but say hi if you like bookbinding and rats. youtu.be/rj-Zj83iYiM

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Detective JD Procures Cop Rations

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I did not realize that this stupid little idea was beloved. Did I blink and it became A Thing while I wasn't looking?

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

fwiw, I don't think you need to change it. But it is funny

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

He's going the most roundabout way possible to say that the Democratic tea party movement is progressive for its own sake, rather than for the people.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I'm sorry, I cannot help but see that this noble prawn knight is a Republican? Do they know?

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Stream had to contend with 1MB/s up speed, but here's the spoils of today's slideshow. Leather is painted and waxed.

Green leather with the words "Sacred and Terrible" painted on. The leather is polished and very shiny.

Raw undyed leather with a maker's mark shaped like a badger

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

A slow day today. I have a couple of copies of Moby Dick that need to be covered, so I made a big roll of blue bookcloth. I prefer to fill cotton cloth with starch paste and blue acrylic

A large square of cotton cloth smeared in blue paste to dry

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Okay, it's not perfect, but a dunk in the green bath fixes even the streakiest dye job.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Finally, somebody says what we're all thinking

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

First off, they wouldn't be campaigning on that even if they were in power. Second, they are the second largest political party on the planet. They have power and they don't know how to use it. How was trump able to push an agenda when he was a single person not even in office?

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

People don't remember what health insurance was like before the ACA. Like yeah, I want more too, but the ACA was a very big win.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Did an impromptu stream today on twitch.tv/badgertide and made a fresh hammock for Halley and Herschel. It's so soft and luxurious.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Aaaaand blocked. Guess I was too close to home.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

You CANNOT think that the extent of Democratic power consists of 260 democrats in Congress the Supreme Court? This is identical to Hakeem Jeffries bitching that Liberal voters are yelling at him for being a doormat. "What do you want ME to do? We don't have the power! Go talk to the republicans!"

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

No. Bullshit. ALL of that is power. Power doesn't just mean "the things we can do in Congress provided we have votes". Power is also the ability to get people on your side. You may as well say that billionaires have no power because they're not elected officials.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

tl;dr They have so many options that don't require having majority power. They don't want to use them now and they didn't want to use them even when they had majority power.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I would guess both, to some extent. But unwillingness is easier to observe. If they WANTED to use their power, they could simply attack republicans based on the evil things that they do. It's not hard. Maybe they literally don't know how to do that? That's pretty concerning.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

So how was Trump able to build power between terms while he wasn't even in office. Sorry, but this is bullshit and it's going to get us killed. The Democrats are the second largest political organization on the entire planet. They have power. They just don't want to use it.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

We should still consider eliminating every golf course anyway, just on principle

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It's a time-consuming and labor-intensive process, but I do love sewing endbands. Once you get a rhythm going, there are basically no rules. Plan things out, make things perfectly symmetrical, or throw balance to the wind. It will look good in the end.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Cloth bookmarks. Ribbon ain't gonna cut it this time. Used heat'nbond to get double-sided soft cloth. Bookcloth is too crunchy for this kind of application.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

#44 Yellow Playing around with a different binding style. I deeply dislike case binding and yet I've spent years doing it. So I'm trying something new to make sturdy, large-format books that open easily.

A large yellow book with black fabric corners. The book is bound in cork fabric

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Accidentally cut the cloth turn-ins too aggressively, but it's no big deal. A quick patch and no one will ever know my secret...

The cloth is cut at an angle and distance that would leave a sliver of grey board exposed after pasting down.

But a small patch at the corner will fix this issue. After pasting down the corners, you can't tell that anything is wrong

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#43 Pastoralia I think I love cork as a covering material. It's not as toolable as leather and it doesn't pare very well, but it's soft and warm and it just feels great to touch. What I DON'T like is case binding. I think I might never do a case binding ever again.

A half leather, half cork book with a printed cover. The book is brown with a picture of a caveman staring at a vending machine.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

#42 Meditations Playing with hollow spines and glued-on boards. Not sure I love the techniques yet, but I think this one came out all right. Good enough to send out into the world.

A half-leather bound book with orange and blue marbled paper covers. The book is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Experimenting with graphite edges for a new project. I've tried this before, but it's never really worked out. This time I mixed the graphite with paste and it seems to be working out a lot better

Book with black pages, but the glare from a light source is very reflective

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#36-40 Wrap-up for this year's book spree. My theme this year is "Faux Leather". Didn't get as many books done as I wanted, but it was still educational. From left to right, we have cork fabric, stained cork, grape leather, cactus leather, and "premium" cactus leather. I'll put titles on 'em later.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It's cold today, so everyone is being snuggly.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Please, please archive your work. Please. I’ve recently been saving lots of my essays as pdfs just so the Internet doesn’t suddenly delete them all (this happened to a whole load of blogs I wrote for The Independent years ago). I don’t want you to wake up and suddenly find your work gone like I did.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

LaGrange distracting me from my work by being uncharacteristically cuddly. Why's he being so affectionate today?

A large brown rat looking up hopefully for treats.

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