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Apprentice's Journal
A page for what you learn at the bench that nobody hands you in writing.
Price
from Rp 57.000
Softcover, French link sewing. Printed and sewn to order.
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Specification
- Type
- Journal
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 80
- Leaves
- 40
- Sheets
- 20
- Signatures
- 4 × 20pp
- Spine
- 4.58 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
- Dating
- Undated
Build it
Rp 57,000
You are not the first person to stand at a bench not knowing what you are doing, and you will not be the last. An apprentice picks up most of a trade by watching, by being corrected, and by getting it wrong in front of somebody who has already seen it wrong before. None of that survives the day unless it gets written down before the next job erases it.
Prompt pages ask plain questions: what you watched, what you got wrong, and what you would do differently if the same job came around again. They are kept short on purpose, because a long form goes unfilled and a short one gets used.
A trade is mostly learned by repetition, and repetition is exactly what memory is bad at holding in order. This book just keeps the order straight.
What is inside
- Notes
- 28pp
- Ruled space for a measurement, a correction, or a term worth looking up twice.
- Prompt
- 16pp
- Short, specific questions asked often enough that they actually get answered.
- Reflection
- 24pp
- Set apart from the daily notes, so a pattern in your own mistakes gets seen before it repeats.
- Reference
- 12pp
- An owner page and the standard reference tables at the back of the book.
In every book
The same six pages open every book: your details, who to call, the signs to point at when you have no shared language, and the map. They sit at the front because the moment you need them is not the moment to be flicking through.
- How to use it
- One page describing this book, not a different one.
- This book belongs to
- One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back.
- My details
- Blood group, allergies, who to call. Written once, carried everywhere.
- Emergency numbers
- Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival.
- Point at this
- A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language.
- World map
- Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart.
- Conversion tables
- Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book.
- Pen test leaf
- The last page, printed for it on purpose. Every notebook is used this way; printing it deliberately is cheaper than losing the last leaf to it by accident.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
What is inside this book?
The PDF of this book.
We do not sell the design or the PDF. Download it free, with no conditions at all, not even tracking. What we sell is the book, a real object that is genuinely useful and can help your life.
Download PDF PDF · 80 pages · 0.3 MB
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
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Questions
Is it dated?
No. Start it whenever you start the apprenticeship, or partway through it.
What is on the prompt pages?
Short questions about what you watched, what you got wrong, and what you would do differently.
How is it ruled?
Lined, front to back, plain enough for numbers and notes both.
Who is it for?
Anyone learning a trade by doing it under someone else's eye.
Does it grade my work?
No. It has no rubric and no score. It only gives you somewhere to put what happened.
All work that brings honest gain is honourable, whether it be of hand or mind.
Price
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