Japanese Book Punch

A bad worker blames his tools they say however you can't say enough how good tools save your day. This hole punch is called Japanese book punch/hole punch/screw punch, and it will save your day in most paper projects. Japanese book punch is particularly useful in making holes anywhere in a project whereas an ordinary hole punch only reaches to the edges of the paper. I've been looking for something like this for a while and this one turns out to be reasonable at £22.99 (www.joannasheen.com) and does the job quite well. The only drawback is although it claims to make holes through multiple layers of paper and leather but the results were not to my satisfaction (they do go through but not very easily). There are some cheaper versions online as well and in my opinion they are not really worth the money they ask for.  More expensive ones are also available (some well over £100 once you've paid for all the different size nozzles) which I haven't tried yet. And I would love to compare the two, however, until then I'm quite happy with my recent purchase for what I'm doing. 

My Latest Project

I proudly present my new baby, a  6-tier drawers with curved top. I used 3mm press board to make the base and covered with Korean Hanji paper to decorate it as well as hand paper cut patterns of butterfly and flowers and then finished it with satin varnish.

Butterfly and flowers.

 This pattern alone took me over 4 hours to cut.

 Close-up shot.

 To show how big the drawers are, I put my glasses next to it.

Hanji paper used inside is a print of chrysanthemum by one of the Korean calligrapher's ink and wash painting.