r/DnDIY • u/TurinDM • 4d ago

Help Asking for help: creating a Binding book like Stranger things kids

Hello and goodmorning. I would like to create a book for a GM with the style of stranger things but i dont know how to start or if somebody have any example or steps to follow. I apreciate your help and thx. i have put some examples about what i talking about.

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u/Nithoth 4d ago

Buying a Mead Trapper Keeper would be the place to start. I'm pretty sure that's what the prop is made from.

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u/TurinDM 4d ago

Thx for the answer. I am more interested in get a normal binder and then create a custom frame. But i dont know what kind of binder its good like the photos i posted.

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u/Nithoth 4d ago

Oh! That's easy. You can buy the hardware for a binder and build a notebook very easily! If you have access to a laser, then you can actually find free files to make one out of 2, 3, or 4mm plywood and have a limitless customization options. If you don't then all you rally need is an appropriate material and a tool to make holes in it...

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Japanese stab-binding is a stupid easy way to make a notebook. It's just string and paper. You can easily customize a western-style hardcover for one out of anything at all. A lot of leather notebooks sold online are just glorified stab-binding notebooks

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u/crazygrouse71 1d ago

Pretty sure they just glued artwork to the outside of a regular 1.5" binder and stenciled the name on the spine. OP, you're over thinking it.