Punching Guide and Awl for punching piercing cradle bookbinding signatures..3592

Description

NOTE:  Punching Cradle shown is for demonstration only and is
not included
in this sale.
This is a punching guide and awl I make for use with the Punching Sewing Cradle I sell.
The holes are spaced 1/4″ apart.
The punching awl is .050 thick and is meant to make a hole for a #18 sewing needle.
The guide is 15″ long overall
Drilled holes length is 11-1/4″, which matches my punching cradle
I did a lot of research on what is generally used and the #18 needle seemed to be the “standard”.  The awl is about .003″ to .005″ larger than the needle (it seems there is no standard as to how thick #18 needles are).
Note on the use of this punching guide
:
When you want evenly spaced holes top and bottom:  I always wondered, using a guide like this, how you get the top and bottom (head and tail) holes evenly spaced from the top and bottom of the signature.  In talking to a very experienced binding teacher in Texas, she said that the old school binders didn’t do the bottom hole equal to the top.  The reason was that if you got a signature upside down, the holes wouldn’t line up and you would catch your error.  So you start punching from the head and wherever the last hole ends up, is where you stop.
To mark which holes you want, you can either use a felt tip marker on tape next to the holes or just tape over the holes you don’t want to use.
If you want top and bottom holes evenly spaced, you can put a shim between the stop on the cradle and the guide to create this even spacing.
I sell a complete line of hand bookbinding equipment;  go to "see other items".
Exclusively on the web site is a text bloxk trimming plough, 2 paper-making preses and 2 letterpresses.
I can
custom-build to order
just about anything I build.  Let me know what you have in mind.  All custom orders are processed through the website.
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California residents to pay 9% sales tax.
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Affordable Binding Equipment is a subsidiary of Heritage Crafted Interiors, Lodi,CA USA