**Edit** It’s ridiculous, but I’m pretty sure that internet spam bots think I’m writing about pornography when I use the word for “the thing you can hang something up with instead of a nail, that rhymes with “Drew”" so I’m taking it out of this post and we’ll see if that lessens some spam
**/Edit**
In my last post I mentioned a cool new tool I bought myself a couple months ago known as a book drill or Japanese hole punch, it works by turning a round bit (I have them in 1mm, 2mm and 3mm sizes) every time you push down on the spring-action handle.
It makes cutting perfectly round holes through book board, leather and paper easy as pie. It takes a few passes to get through board, but it makes a really nice clean hole for coptic binding, and also for sewing a long-stitch binding on leather.
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The barrel is made of brass, and
the handle of a pale solid hardwood.
The bit is hardened steel and it screws
into the end of the punch.
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This is what the bit looks like before
you attach it to the barrel – 2mm is my most frequently used size.
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Here are the directions that came
with it – straight from Japan!
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this picture gives a good look at
the size – relatively small. It probably
takes 4 or 5 rotations to make it through
board, one to make it through paper and
2 to make it through leather.
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All of the paper bits come out of
a hole on the side of the barrel,
so sometimes I use the punch to
make little tiny paper circles.
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Always use a cutting mat or piece of
scrap board under what you’re cutting!
The drills are very sharp and can cut into
your table easily.
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