Bookbinding Tool Making Intensive with Jeff Peachey: Knives, Folders and Lifting Tools
CLASS INFORMATION
When: June 23-25, 2016
Where: Conservation Lab of the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Provo, Utah
Price: $300 for GBW members, $315 for non-GBW members
CLASS DESCRIPTION
In this three day tool making intensive, we will make several knives by hand, using stock reduction,
and make a variety of Delrin and Tonkin bamboo folding and lifting tools. Participants should bring
any tools they wish to discuss, sharpen, alter, clean or restore. The specific tools that bookbinders
use will be examined in detail: paring knives, lifting knives, scissors, hole punches, spokeshaves and
board shear blades. The pros and cons of various sharpening systems will be discussed, including
water stones, ceramic stones, diamond stones, oil stones, natural stones, silicone carbide powder,
aluminum oxide powder, diamond paste, abrasive papers and stropping compounds. Basic
principals of tool steel and edge geometry will be discussed. This class will focus on the techniques
of efficient free-hand sharpening, which is applicable to any sharpening system. Participants will be
provided the 3M Microfinishing film, a large paring or lifting knife blank, and all hard hacksaw
blades to two small knives of their choosing, a variety of Delrin blanks and Tonkin Bamboo. The
goal is to free participants from the plethora of misinformation and mystique that surrounds
sharpening and the shaping material using hand tools.
The URL to sign up for this class is: https://gbw.formstack.com/forms/toolmaking
*This class has been graciously subsidized by the Harold B. Lee Library and the Church History
Library in a joint venture with The Guild of Bookworkers. No materials fee is required. Once signed
up, further information and details will be sent.
Please contact katie.smith@ldschurch.org or 801-240-6983 for any questions regarding the workshop.
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