Re: [BKARTS] paperback and non-leather book repair

[Jet Foncannon <bolu.bolu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I trim off the bound edge of the book and do a perfect binding using the 
neat machine that is sold for that purpose.  For additional strength, I 
do a saw kerf binding on top of this (Someone has described this is a 
preivious post using a different name;  saw indentations in the spine 
and fill them with glue and twine.)


On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at  8:48 PM, Scott wrote:

> This new kid on the block wishes to learn two things:
>
>
> 1.  How to rebind paperback books who have "perfect" (cut & glued) 
> bindings.
>
>
> 2.  How to strengthen expensive books that have cheap bindings
>
>
> I have had three copies of the Oxford Dictionary of Christian names 
> fall
> apart
>
> and I have other books with "perfect" bindings that I would love to 
> fix
> before
>
> they completely fall apart
>
>
> My expensive books are so costly because they relate to fields of 
> limited
>
> general interest (e.g. medieval anthroponymy, historical Romance
> linguistics,
>
> erc.) and are printed in Europe or the British Isles not because they 
> are
> fine
> leather volumes.
>
> Sometime in the future, I would like to work with leather bookbinding;
> however, that field is an interest-not a pressing need.
>
>
> To my knowledge here are no local binderies: Atlanta is 450 miles 
> north;
> Key West is 400 miles south
>
>
> Thanks for any and all suggestions.
>
>
> Scott Catledge
>
> Professor Emeritus (ret.)
>
> history & languqages
>
>
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