{"id":42,"date":"2009-03-27T13:07:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T17:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2015-11-04T17:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:53:11","slug":"japanese-screw-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/japanese-screw-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Hole Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. You can buy the more inexpensive version on Amazon:\u00c2\u00a0Martha Stewart\u00c2\u00a0Paper Punch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Japanese<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Screw<\/p>\n

This is what the bit looks like before you attach it to the barrel – 2mm is my most frequently used size.<\/p>\n

\"Directionsto<\/p>\n

Here are the directions that came with it – straight from Japan!<\/p>\n

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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 two\u00c2\u00a0to make it through leather.<\/p>\n

\"Screw<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Japanese<\/p>\n

Always use a self-healing cutting mat<\/a> or piece of scrap board under what you’re cutting! The drills are very sharp and can cut into your table easily.<\/p>\n

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See one of the tools of the trade – A Japanese screw punch handy for punching holes in paper, bookboard and leather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163,58],"tags":[298,115,295],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}