South Shields is next to Newcastle - someone took this book across the border to avoid the library fees! 🤣🤣 And now you've taken it even further to give it an entirely new life!
@@FourKeysBookArts It's always a weird feeling when TH-camrs come to Scotland and you find out, after the fact, that they weren't that far away from you, albeit that Edinburgh, in which I lived for a year, is on the other side of the country, even if that's only around 70 miles away.
If you ever visit Portland, Oregon make sure to set a couple hours aside to visit Powell's "City of Books" especially their rare book room. I think you'd enjoy it, it's a lot like the bookshop you bought this book from but slightly better catalogued.
@@FourKeysBookArts Oh if you're a fan of books you'd love Powell's! They have a very good online catelog of the books they have, including in the rare book room. Thank you for the video!
One of your videos popped up for me, and I've binge watched just about your whole catalogue. At work we keep tally books, recording information at various locations. We have used store bought notebooks, with hand drawn columns, and hand written header titles for years. In need of new books soon, having watched your videos, I decided to dive into creating custom tally books. I've just today completed the binding on the first one. As a first attempt, thanks to your videos, it turned out very well. It's a brown "leather" hardcover, hollow spine, with grey end papers, yellow accent pages, and yellow end bands (glued in, not sewn). I have to make a second one for another location, and already have family members asking to pay me to make journals for them, when I feel I'm ready for that. I'm 57 and, thanks to you, have discovered a new, very enjoyable endeavor. Thank you for your videos.
Your papermaking skills are so impressive. And wow it looks SO much sturdier and cleaner! Looks like it'll be preserved for another 150 years or so, thanks to you. Can't wait to see your cover design.
Always a pleasure. Just a comment on applying moisture without using water, I would use laponite, it's a synthetic clay that absorbs water and is very useful in instances when you need to apply moisture deliberately and with precision.
i became obsessed with book binding when i was little thanks to Mo rom Inkheart. At the time, he was the father i didn't think i would ever have. Seeing how much ptience this takes has always amazed me, Inkheart never did Mo's work enough credit, despite how important it was to the last book especially. You're a hero of the literary world my friend.
What you say is true! There's so many wonderful bookshops in Scotland. My favourite bookshop I came across was Leakey's Bookshop in Inverness. I picked up some lithographs of Jessie M. King's artworks there.
This just made my night! I want you to know your dune series has gotten me into book binding and leather working. It has been a blast, and thank you for being an inspiration
I love how peaceful are your videos, and how respectful is your work to the books, take the necessary time for each step and being cautious with every single page
Your videos are so mesmerising, and it NEVER fails to make me run to watch them! The quality is top-notch and shows the amount of dedication, love and hard work you put in everything you bring out! Looking forward to the second part! Cheers
I love the dictionary (?) as a convenient tear-off wastepaper block, at 9:30. I'm sure a bookbinders' supply store would charge plenty for something like that!
I love your content and this was a very fun idea to do along your Scotland adventure. Please keep doing more fun content, its all fascinating to watch from someone who has no idea the process of binding books. Especially your Dune and D&D series.
Beautiful, super quality production as well. Love the different camera angles and the time taken to put it together beautifully. Waiting for part 2 ☺️👍
I swear I could smell the shops in your clips. Love me a used bookstore! I'm always ecstatic to see a new vid from you. Not only are they incredibly informative, but you film and edit them so beautifully, and always have such lovely music selections!
My new "comfort food" is watching videos of master crafspersons restoring beautiful old objects. So interesting to see how the process goes, the tools, the skills. I'm a new subscriber looking forward to Part 2 & a backlog of interesting & satisfying videos. Something to keep me calm in the storm!
I always love seeing your book restoration videos and it's great to hear you'll continuing your bookbinding basics! I have been waiting for it quite a bit. Can't wait to follow the new ones along too :D
I always run when I see a new 4 keys video dropped! I’m so excited for this series! What a beautiful souvenir to get from a trip overseas! Thank you for sharing your passion with us!
When I was a kid, PBS or sometimes the old A&E channel would have how-to docus but I don't think any were as good as the work on this channel. You not only do all the binding work, but all the video work. It's so incredibly special and a joy to watch you in action. As AI and such is force on us, seeing the evidence of human achievement is humbling and important. Thank you for sharing your work with us!
I like the annotations in books. They help me understand previous owners' perspectives, what they thought about the content, and what was important to them. I wouldn't want them removed from a book I own. Yes, I write in my books, but not all of them.
I’m so happy to see a new video from you. I watch every single one you post since I’ve subscribed. I’m looking forward to seeing more of the binding process for this book!
I've been missing your videos, Dennis. Lovely to see you back with another fascinating project! You're off to a great start. Really looking forward to the next installments.
I know the faster pace of this video will likely satisfy a larger audience, but I feel like a bit of the magic of your process gets lost. Thank you for providing this content, and I look forward to seeing how your storytelling style progresses!
I was waiting impatiently for your return, post bricks and dune. This looks like an epic project, again, thank you for sharing something that you are so passionate about. ❤
Glad you enjoyed the trip here Dennis and hope the family did as well. We do seem to have a large number of bookshops in Scotland and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that can't resist their pull.
I am envious of your endpapers and pleased to see falling-apart old books giving hobbyist/collectors joy in restoring to a readable state as opposed to being cut up for the pictures...but mostly I am entertained at the idea that you sometimes sit at your workbench and think 'ah yes, it is time for the montage'. (also, I am sitting here in Scotland and before you showed a famous view from an angle I recognised, my answer to "where is this" was "...Wales!" XD)
Thank you, Dennis, absolutely absorbing. It’s fascinating to watch the process of stripping - or pulling as I now know - the book to its component parts, then the reassembly. Looking forward to Part 2.
Another amazing video. Really appreciated the comparison shot of the unburnished and burnished end papers. Can't wait for a new basics video, and the sequel to this one.
I love your videos. Cinematography, editing. Wonderfully done. I didn't know I enjoyed watching the book binding process until your videos. I think raw edges on this book gives it so much character and would look equally, if not more, attractive than trimmed edges. Thank you! Happy holidays
I hope you enjoyed your time in bonny Scotland. And what a wonderful idea to take a rescue book back home with you. And what a wonderful reminder of your trip this book will be for you. Beautiful😊
man this is crazy! South Shields is where I was born - it's a small seaside town in northeast England and I have honestly never seen it mentioned online like... ever. very surreal to see a library book from South Shields wind up in Scotland!
Congratulations, you now owe the South Shields Public Library 82,542.12 pounds.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Marvelous, simple marvelous!
What is this weird "." symbol you've written? Are you from the future? Our Pounds having Schillings in them! He owes £85,542 2s 4¾d
Just as I'd feared!😂
@@TonboIV I think it's metric now
I hope the folks in that book shop in Scotland get to see this.
That’s what I was thinking
We did 😇
@@megbishop638 yay!! I'm so glad to hear it
@@megbishop638 if im ever in scotland ill be sure to visit the Megbi Shop!
My friends work in this bookshop!! I’ll be sure to share with them :)
Need an update!
South Shields is next to Newcastle - someone took this book across the border to avoid the library fees! 🤣🤣 And now you've taken it even further to give it an entirely new life!
Rebinding fugitive books like this is often done in the Literary Witness Protection Programme.
@@DanielCoffey67 Nice 🤭
@@DanielCoffey67 🤣🤣🤣
If you want to show more video of your trip, my feelings wouldn’t be hurt.😁
Maybe - I shot sooo much footage its not even funny!🤣
I could be persuaded to watch that too---it is a lovely place and fits well with watching a soothing & fascinating video about restoring an old book.
@@FourKeysBookArts It's always a weird feeling when TH-camrs come to Scotland and you find out, after the fact, that they weren't that far away from you, albeit that Edinburgh, in which I lived for a year, is on the other side of the country, even if that's only around 70 miles away.
Restoration of this quality is like the Baumgartner painting restorations, absolutely stunnning!
theres even japeness mulberry paper (washecoso) in both hehe
I was looking for this comment an I somehow completely missed it lmao
Brilliant!
@@majora748 washi kozo
Amen!
If you ever visit Portland, Oregon make sure to set a couple hours aside to visit Powell's "City of Books" especially their rare book room. I think you'd enjoy it, it's a lot like the bookshop you bought this book from but slightly better catalogued.
Thanks for the recommendation. Yet another stop on my ever-growing book-travel itinerary!
@@FourKeysBookArts Oh if you're a fan of books you'd love Powell's! They have a very good online catelog of the books they have, including in the rare book room. Thank you for the video!
One of your videos popped up for me, and I've binge watched just about your whole catalogue.
At work we keep tally books, recording information at various locations. We have used store bought notebooks, with hand drawn columns, and hand written header titles for years. In need of new books soon, having watched your videos, I decided to dive into creating custom tally books. I've just today completed the binding on the first one. As a first attempt, thanks to your videos, it turned out very well. It's a brown "leather" hardcover, hollow spine, with grey end papers, yellow accent pages, and yellow end bands (glued in, not sewn). I have to make a second one for another location, and already have family members asking to pay me to make journals for them, when I feel I'm ready for that.
I'm 57 and, thanks to you, have discovered a new, very enjoyable endeavor.
Thank you for your videos.
Oh, this is just what I need this evening! (UK time) Complete relaxation. Thank you!
Same! Just what I was thinking. After a long day at work, this is just what I need tonight :)
You're welcome 😊
Your papermaking skills are so impressive. And wow it looks SO much sturdier and cleaner! Looks like it'll be preserved for another 150 years or so, thanks to you. Can't wait to see your cover design.
Always a pleasure. Just a comment on applying moisture without using water, I would use laponite, it's a synthetic clay that absorbs water and is very useful in instances when you need to apply moisture deliberately and with precision.
i became obsessed with book binding when i was little thanks to Mo rom Inkheart. At the time, he was the father i didn't think i would ever have. Seeing how much ptience this takes has always amazed me, Inkheart never did Mo's work enough credit, despite how important it was to the last book especially. You're a hero of the literary world my friend.
I love the smell of an old bookstore!
I love watching a master at work! Thank you for these videos!
Your channel combines two of my favorite things- books, and passionate people talking about the things they’re passionate about
The haircut is my favorite part, can't wait
This is such a beautiful and mesmerizing craft. I want to be able to do this so bad.
What you say is true! There's so many wonderful bookshops in Scotland. My favourite bookshop I came across was Leakey's Bookshop in Inverness. I picked up some lithographs of Jessie M. King's artworks there.
There really are! I was only able to visit so many; I wish I could have made it to all of them!
For a book this old it's surprising in what good conditions it was in, but you definitely gave it an even bigger lift.
this is my favorite youtube channel. Man i'm serious please upload as often as you (feasibly and comfortably) can
This just made my night! I want you to know your dune series has gotten me into book binding and leather working. It has been a blast, and thank you for being an inspiration
I quite literally feel like an apprentice to your art and aspire to one day have your finesse with bookbinding.📚✨💜
It's always a good day when Dennis brings us an update from the bindery
Back to the Bindery! Always a grand time.
I love how peaceful are your videos, and how respectful is your work to the books, take the necessary time for each step and being cautious with every single page
Your videos are so mesmerising, and it NEVER fails to make me run to watch them! The quality is top-notch and shows the amount of dedication, love and hard work you put in everything you bring out! Looking forward to the second part! Cheers
Amazing. I hope everyone enjoyed the trip. Great Video. Thanks again.
Thank you Denis for the new upload! They always brighten my day!!
So glad to see an update in your channel. You're one of my favourite content creators in TH-cam.
Well Dennis, hope you enjoyed your Scottish trip, and I'm very much looking forward to this interesting project !
Another amazing show, thank you for all your hard work also I do hope you enjoyed your trip. All the very best from Scotland
Thank you Dennis as always, informative, enjoyable and a pleasure to watch...
Beautifully shot, edited and sound! I didn’t know book binding was so extensive.
I love the dictionary (?) as a convenient tear-off wastepaper block, at 9:30. I'm sure a bookbinders' supply store would charge plenty for something like that!
Too true! I believe it is a discarded SAT Study Guide.
Armchair Books is a beautiful place - I have many happy memories of browsing those shelves.
I love your content and this was a very fun idea to do along your Scotland adventure. Please keep doing more fun content, its all fascinating to watch from someone who has no idea the process of binding books. Especially your Dune and D&D series.
What a beautiful project. I can't wait to see the next Vid.
It would be funny to return it to the library once this is all done ^___^
Beautiful, super quality production as well. Love the different camera angles and the time taken to put it together beautifully. Waiting for part 2 ☺️👍
I swear I could smell the shops in your clips. Love me a used bookstore! I'm always ecstatic to see a new vid from you. Not only are they incredibly informative, but you film and edit them so beautifully, and always have such lovely music selections!
This was just the video I needed this morning to calm me down after dealing with a very stressful phone call.
My new "comfort food" is watching videos of master crafspersons restoring beautiful old objects. So interesting to see how the process goes, the tools, the skills. I'm a new subscriber looking forward to Part 2 & a backlog of interesting & satisfying videos. Something to keep me calm in the storm!
I always love seeing your book restoration videos and it's great to hear you'll continuing your bookbinding basics! I have been waiting for it quite a bit. Can't wait to follow the new ones along too :D
I was just at armchair books in March when I visited Scotland!! I'm so glad you liked the store too!
It's a great place - I'll have to make a return visit!
I'm glad that I get to share a cup of tea while watching this.
I always run when I see a new 4 keys video dropped! I’m so excited for this series! What a beautiful souvenir to get from a trip overseas! Thank you for sharing your passion with us!
My pleasure!
This is wonderful. Thank you so much.
When I was a kid, PBS or sometimes the old A&E channel would have how-to docus but I don't think any were as good as the work on this channel. You not only do all the binding work, but all the video work. It's so incredibly special and a joy to watch you in action. As AI and such is force on us, seeing the evidence of human achievement is humbling and important. Thank you for sharing your work with us!
Man, your videos are always such a pleasure to watch! Shot and edited beautifully, and i liked the narration you did for this one!
Always enjoy your nature sneak peaks. Beautiful there.
This was so fun & relaxing to watch! Looking forward to part 2!
I like the annotations in books. They help me understand previous owners' perspectives, what they thought about the content, and what was important to them. I wouldn't want them removed from a book I own. Yes, I write in my books, but not all of them.
I’m so happy to see a new video from you. I watch every single one you post since I’ve subscribed. I’m looking forward to seeing more of the binding process for this book!
Thanks for watching!
I've been missing your videos, Dennis. Lovely to see you back with another fascinating project! You're off to a great start. Really looking forward to the next installments.
How I've missed seeing you pop up in my feed, Dennis!
Welcome back! So happy to see a new video.
Beautiful video. Loved it. Thank you 🙏
I missed your videos. Just love your work. It is very relaxing to watch you work. I hope you have someone you are teaching this fine and amazing art!
That looked like a proper cup of tea. Top marks.
I know the faster pace of this video will likely satisfy a larger audience, but I feel like a bit of the magic of your process gets lost. Thank you for providing this content, and I look forward to seeing how your storytelling style progresses!
Its good to see a new project underway, i really enjoy your videos and strive to bind books at your level!
I'm so excited for a new video! Welcome back!
Thank you! Glad to be back.
I was waiting impatiently for your return, post bricks and dune. This looks like an epic project, again, thank you for sharing something that you are so passionate about. ❤
Glad you enjoyed the trip here Dennis and hope the family did as well.
We do seem to have a large number of bookshops in Scotland and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that can't resist their pull.
I am envious of your endpapers and pleased to see falling-apart old books giving hobbyist/collectors joy in restoring to a readable state as opposed to being cut up for the pictures...but mostly I am entertained at the idea that you sometimes sit at your workbench and think 'ah yes, it is time for the montage'.
(also, I am sitting here in Scotland and before you showed a famous view from an angle I recognised, my answer to "where is this" was "...Wales!" XD)
Thank you, Dennis, absolutely absorbing. It’s fascinating to watch the process of stripping - or pulling as I now know - the book to its component parts, then the reassembly. Looking forward to Part 2.
I love visiting this store every time i go to edinburgh
As always, this is entertainment that's mesmerizing! Your work truly exists at the junction of artistry, craftsmanship and sorcery. 😲😎📖🧙🙌
Another amazing video. Really appreciated the comparison shot of the unburnished and burnished end papers. Can't wait for a new basics video, and the sequel to this one.
I love watching your videos, I was going through some kind of withdraw. Saving old books is close to my heart.
Wow! What patience required to do this work!
Your videos are always a special treat that really adds to my day 📖
Can't wait for part 2 -- and I'm delighted to see that you trimmed the poor thing!
Very nice ! After the haircut, you could marbelize it. Would be great
Oh man, a new video. And it just part 1!! Can't wait for the next, Dennis!
Great illustration Dennis, as always. I love it!
Always a delight to watch your videos! I just finished building my future bookbinding desk and I can't wait to work on new projects
Hey Dennis, nice to see you and your craftsmanship again! Much appreciated!
Boy I can’t wait for Adam Savage to mention your channel and for everything to blow up.
God no, first Baumgartner with his climate crap and now that insufferable tool Adam.
8:15 The same tool is called a pad-slick when used for working on saxophones, etc..
Highly appreciate you taken us along the journey of restoring a fine book.
Good to see you Dennis. I very much like your content. Thank you.
These videos are always so satisfying and inspiring! I can't wait to see the next steps 😍📚
I love your videos. Cinematography, editing. Wonderfully done. I didn't know I enjoyed watching the book binding process until your videos. I think raw edges on this book gives it so much character and would look equally, if not more, attractive than trimmed edges. Thank you! Happy holidays
Never needed a video than I did today! Thank you Dennis!
oh goodness I can't wait for the next episode!!
Looks like this will be quite a fun project!!
I hope you enjoyed your time in bonny Scotland. And what a wonderful idea to take a rescue book back home with you. And what a wonderful reminder of your trip this book will be for you. Beautiful😊
How wonderful! I can't wait for Part 2!!!
Glad to see another great project!
of course I love watching this craft, but I also really admire your beautiful shots!
man this is crazy! South Shields is where I was born - it's a small seaside town in northeast England and I have honestly never seen it mentioned online like... ever. very surreal to see a library book from South Shields wind up in Scotland!
Thanks for posting. It's always a pleasure to watch a master of his craft, no matter what that might be.
Yeah! Hammer time! Makin' this blacksmith happy again!
Pocos vídeos me relajan tanto como los suyos. Es Vd. un verdadero artista
Thank you for bringing us to Scotland. Even visiting the bookstore! That was wonderful.
Great to see that you posted a new video.
Used book stores are amazing.
Also I am really excited to see what design you come up with for the cover
Wonderful work as always Dennis, & what a worthy preservation project also- brilliant! 🤓 I await the next chapter eagerly...
If you're ever in Vancouver, Macleod's Books is THE antiquarian bookstore to visit.
I’ll add it to my list!
Thank you, another beautiful video!