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Do you have any resources for getting started? A friend gave me a great engineering book from the 30s, but I haven't found someone locally who would repair the
by vlachen 3y ago
Do you have any resources for getting started? A friend gave me a great engineering book from the 30s, but I haven't found someone locally who would repair the spine/binding. My next choice is to do it myself.
- em-bee 3y agoi had a book in german about book binding that went through the whole process from start to finish, explaining the process, the material and the tools needed. based on that i bought materials and tools and took a stack of new exercise books, with the intention to bind them into a nice leather bound book. don't remember if i completed the work, as it was decades ago. but the steps weren't to hard. by now i expect there to be some tutorials online. the additional challenge you have with repair is that you want to preserve as much as you can from the original. if this is a precious book i would practice on a few throwaway books first.
- thesuitonym 3y agoSorry if this comes across rude, but you're asking this question in a comment thread on a exactly the type of resource you're asking for.
- vlachen 3y agoThe apology wasn't necessary and frankly seems disingenuous. Be straightforward. Regardless, it seems that there is a significant difference of materials and techniques for repairing a 90 year old book versus creating a brand new book. Therefore, I found that a GP comment regarding restoring books might be a good place to inquire about resources. I did actually skim through the OP link before posting my question, and I didn't find anything that specified rebinding an old book.
- ggambetta 3y agoSend it my way :)