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My last method for folding an accordion, and the one that I use most often: printed scoring guides. (Image from here.) I don’t own one, but perhaps I should?! You can achieve similarly reliable results using a scoring board. Every second fold must now be reversed to make your accordion, You can also use a template that is the width of a single page. (The final reverse fold hasn’t been made.) Using a template the width of a two-page spread and making the reverse folds as in step b from Ikegami’s instructions results in an accordion that looks like this. (The first page will be shorter than the rest of the pages by the thickness of the paper.) The template is then pushed firmly against the stop -as shown by the pointy finger- and the second score is made. I score the first line, then fold it and place the fold against the stop. I work against a stop, in this case the measuring guide on my board shear. I use a version of this method, making templates out of scraps of book board and using them as scoring guides. If you are folding many accordions it makes sense that you would have a quick method to reliably create pages all the same width. I learned the Japanese method from this book: This is not, however, the method used by Japanese binders. On Day One I showed you the Keith Smith instructions for an Oriental Fold Book.