Adventures in bookbinding
Feb. 10th, 2025 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnI took this extremely battered and spineless book and tarted it up a bit:
Made new head and tail bands and a new spine, put a new cover on it and copied the logo and title with carbon paper.
This isn't quite the final version, I tweaked the lettering a bit to make it more level but I don't seem to have photographed that.
Looks quite good as far as it goes. The hardest bit is the glue that really wants to be on the outside of the bookcloth and not where it should be. And cutting things straight, of course.
Next time I intend to dissect the book more first, so I can say I properly re-bound it with new stitching. I've got a whole pile of badly knackered AD&D books and a ton of pieces of bookcloth, so I can experiment.
Made new head and tail bands and a new spine, put a new cover on it and copied the logo and title with carbon paper.
This isn't quite the final version, I tweaked the lettering a bit to make it more level but I don't seem to have photographed that.
Looks quite good as far as it goes. The hardest bit is the glue that really wants to be on the outside of the bookcloth and not where it should be. And cutting things straight, of course.
Next time I intend to dissect the book more first, so I can say I properly re-bound it with new stitching. I've got a whole pile of badly knackered AD&D books and a ton of pieces of bookcloth, so I can experiment.
