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Bone Awls by Shanna Leino - Beautifully handcrafted tools made of elk bone, these awls are exceptionally dense & durable.

Bone awls are a unique design of Shanna Leino's. Each awl has a dull pointed end, and a dull angle blade-like end. She originally designed this tool to aid in blind tooling work on leather. The pointe...

Bone Folders - Croft Hand Crafted - Uniquely shaped and beautifully constructed bone folders, made from wild Elk or Moose. Function superbly and are a wonderful addition to any binder's bone folder tool supply kit.

ORIGAMI - Traditionally about 3.5" or similar shape (called a finishing folder in longer dimension).
MINI...

Bone Folders by Shanna Leino - Beautifully handcrafted by Shanna Leino from elk bone, which makes these folders extremely dense and durable.

Useful for turning corners on cloth and leather, scoring paper, folding, smoothing out surfaces, and burnishing surfaces.

Double Ended Steel Awl by Shanna Leino - Beautifully hand crafted by Shanna Leino from heat treated high carbon tool steel.

This tool is most often used for hole punching into signatures & binders board. The ball end can also be used to pull stitches, in addition to marking paper/leather with a dimple (when an alternate to pencil is ...

Peachey Bradawl - A Bradawl has a chisel point, much like a birdcage awl. The chisel point makes it easy to pierce binders board by rotating the tool, and since the blade is a consistent one eight of an inch in diameter, there is no danger of forcing it too deep and making a hole that is too large. The small size an...

Peachey Lifting Knives - A unique shape developed from a Roger Powell design. Each blade has a long bevel and slightly rounded corners for minimal creasing of cloth or leather.
The large knife’s partly flat blade makes lifting covering material easy by sliding it on the surface of the board and it cuts a straight line whe...

Peachey Minature Bookbinding Tool Set - This set of 15 miniature tools are all hand crafted by master craftsman Jeff Peachey. All tools in the set are 1/4 scale in size, and are made from the same materials as the full size versions. Unbelievably cute and accurate. The set includes an English paring knife, a Peachey paring knife, a Fre...

Peachey Paring Knives - This line of knives is hand made in the US by an accomplished bookbinder and conservator, Jeff Peachey. Through his own experience and others in the field, he has put together a selection of his most useful knives for us to feature. These knives make for an excellent addition to any bookbinders to...

Peachey Triangle - This 2" bronze 450 triangle is made from full 1/4" thick bronze stock, so it can sit upright on the bench. It also features a removable nickel-plated thumbscrew and beveled edges for comfortable handling. It is a great size for most book and box making needs.

Steel Micro Chisel by Shanna Leino - Beautifully hand crafted by Shanna Leino from heat treated high carbon tool steel.
This tool can be used on paper, leather, binder's board and wood among other things.

It was originally designed by Shanna as a means to create consistent slits into leather for weaving thin strips of parchment ...

Steel Punch by Shanna Leino - Beautifully hand crafted by Shanna Leino from heat treated high carbon tool steel.

This tool is used for pre-drilling, pilot hole marking and for stamping into metal. A beautiful and well deserved addition to every bindery's tool collection.

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