There’s a particular satisfaction in a notebook you made yourself, and a traveller’s journal is a forgiving place to start: a cover, a few elastics, and some inserts you can swap as they fill.
This is the build from the latest video, written up slowly so I can think about what actually worked.
I used a 1.8mm veg-tan offcut — firm enough to hold its shape, soft enough to fold without scoring. If you’re buying for this specifically, a single shoulder goes a long way.
A few things that mattered more than I expected:
Next time the elastics go in before the edges are finished, not after. Threading them through waxed channels was fiddlier than it needed to be.
Small thing, but it’s the kind of order-of-operations lesson that only shows up once you’ve done it the slow way.
I’ll add the cutting template to the downloads library once I’ve tidied it up.