Osman

The bone folder is the tool that changes the result most and costs the least. Everything else can wait.

Worked in a bindery and the number that surprises people is how much of the cost is not the binding: it is the pulling and resewing. Taking a text block apart without damaging it is slow, careful work and it is most of the hours on the invoice.

That is why a recase is a fraction of the price. You are paying for skill applied to the part nobody sees.