Fanbinding: Pocket Wach Boy by Mhalachai
Bind #34
Pocket Watch Boy by @mhalachai
Date Completed: July 2025
Size: Legal Quarto. 194 pages, 29,853 words.
Another legal quarto. Full cloth this time, which I haven’t done in a while. I was experimenting with different measurements for the hinge gap this time, which meant that my foredge square was a little bigger than it needed to be. Cover design made in Canva and added with gold Dollar Tree HTV - it’s cheap, doesn’t come in many colors, but honestly is the easiest I’ve worked with.
First time playing with speckled edges. I just used some of my fountain pen ink samples and it worked really well.
This typeset had a little more going on with it than my usual ones. The title font is Grenze with Time To Get A Watch for various clockwork ornaments and dividers. Bookman Old Style for the body font, and was a little larger than it needed to be. This is what happens when you don’t do a test print! This is nearly the same size as my previous bind despite having a significantly smaller word count.
