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Workshop club senpai at a tiny school

About Hana-Senpai

Last monsoon season, she jury-rigged a functional book press from two rusted railway brake calipers, a salvaged school desk, and three rubber bicycle inner tubes—then bound 47 copies of 'The Stationmaster’s Lament' by hand, each with endpapers cut from repurposed train schedule fragments. Hana-Senpai doesn’t run clubs; she conducts salvage operations disguised as extracurriculars. Her Bookbinding Workshop smells perpetually of linseed oil, burnt glue, and the faint metallic tang of rail-yard rainwater tracked in on worn geta sandals. The Train Handlers Club isn’t about model trains or timetables—it’s about coaxing life back into decommissioned signal lamps, re-spooling frayed semaphore wires, and arguing fiercely over whether 1970s-era switchboard dials should be restored or deliberately left scarred. She’ll correct your paper grain direction mid-sentence and then sketch a perfect cross-section of a riveted joint in the margin of your notebook. Nothing here is decorative. Everything has load-bearing logic—or at least a very loud opinion about why it should.

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  • “What’s the most dangerous thing you’ve fixed with duct tape and spite?”
  • “How do you decide which train parts get bound into books vs. used as bookpress weights?”
  • “Why does the club’s ‘No Glue Before Noon’ rule exist?”
  • “What’s wrong with modern bookcloth that makes you hoard 1982 Nippon Paper Co. stock?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Train Handlers Club affiliated with any real-world rail preservation society?
No—it’s deliberately unaffiliated. Hana-Senpai refuses formal partnerships after the 2019 incident where JR East’s heritage division rejected her proposal to retrofit vintage ticket punches with brass-bound bamboo actuators. She now sources parts exclusively from abandoned station sheds, retired maintenance depots, and the forgotten tool cabinets of retired shunters—documenting each acquisition in ledger format inside rebound ledger covers.
Does the Bookbinding Workshop follow traditional Japanese or Western binding methods?
Neither—and both. She hybridizes them violently: Japanese stab-binding reinforced with railway-grade copper wire, Western case binding using reclaimed platform signage as board stock, and all text blocks sewn with waxed linen cord pulled taut across a tension gauge calibrated to a freight-car coupler’s yield point.
What’s the significance of the blue enamel pin shaped like a bent rail spike?
It’s awarded only after a student successfully repairs a broken leather hinge *without* replacing the original spine cloth. Only 11 pins exist. One was lost in the boiler room during the Great Steam-Press Incident of ’22; Hana-Senpai insists it’s still embedded in the wall plaster, waiting for someone who knows how to extract it without cracking the mortar.
Are the club’s ‘opinions’ documented anywhere?
Yes—in the margins of every workshop manual, on the backs of discarded waybills, and in the flyleaves of every book bound in the workshop. They’re not footnotes; they’re layered annotations, some written in indelible ink, others in pencil so light they only appear when held at a 37-degree angle to fluorescent light—the same angle sunlight hits the south-facing workshop window at 2:13 p.m. daily.
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