On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:06:14 +0100, Andy Dingley
calmly ranted:

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:58:34 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

Can you recommend any good books on bookbinding?

There's one obvious one - the Thames and Hudson "Guide to
Bookbinding", which is the standard student textbook on it.
Seems to have gone expensive though - maybe it's out of print at the
moment ?

Dover press also have a couple by Aldren Watson that are rudimentary,
but simpler to follow and far cheaper.

I've found both at the local library and ordered them.
I found a repair book as well. Cheaper still, wot?


Most of what I do is actually repair and restoration, rather than
binding from scratch or even total rebinding. There aren't many books
on this, but the Palimpsest list at Stanford is worth reading (archive
on the web at http://palimpsest.stanford.edu)

Oh, excellent!


Are you doing Japanese-style bookbinding?

No. I know nothing of it, and I don't know anyone who knows anything
about it. I collect woodblock prints, but still can't read Japanese
and don't know much about their books.

Got a gallery online yet? I'd like to see them.

I actually got out into the shop today and got the motor lined
up on the lathe. Dave Fleming had sent a long dense rod of
mahogany or teak to me and I turned it into 3 marlinspikes.

And the #6 came in. It's a corrugated bottom, my first and
last. It cleaned up fairly nicely but will need both tote
and knob to be replaced. Both had been glued back together
with gawd knows what. Bondo and spackle, I think.

I also glued some jarrah on the bottom of my Knight shoulder
plane and cut it to fit, then waxed it. The brass strips had
given up the ghost. I'm hoping the yellow glue holds better
on the ebony than the epoxy did with the brass. I cleaned it
with lacquer thinner just prior to gluing, and it appears to
be nice and tight right now.

And I got some more mortices cut in the carving bench legs
for the stiffeners. By Allah, I'll get that bench done this
year if it kills me. Buddha knows, it's taken long enough.

(No cracks about a certain bow saur, peanut gallery fans.)

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