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Otago Witness, Issue 3860, 6 March 1928, Page 10

THE HANDY MAN’S CORNER. HOW TO BIND A BOOK. (Special for the Otago Witness.) With the exercise of ordinary care a square to be quite sure the book is itself lower or “ tail” cut brine it out at creditable job can always be made of the quite square. Make some shallow cuts side of the tape, then over the tane in binding of a vo.ume of magazines. Such with a fine tenon saw across the back of through the other hole by its side ami magazines have the advantage of being the sections, just deep enough to pierce on, terminating at the other solitary cut at ready folded and cut, and so two trouble- the middle sheet of each section. There the head of the book. Place the next some operations are avoided. should be five of these cuts, equally spaced, section., in position and work backwards Commence by taking the books to pieces, and their purpose is to make very small sewing in and out by the taoe= as before’ the paper covers being removed together holes for the stitches. The three middle and continue in this way until all sec Hon, with all unwanted advertisement pages, cuts are to be duplicated—that is. another are sewn. Finish the sewing by fastening Note, however, that in some magazines an parallel cut has to be made by the side of tb e ends with an ordinary catch stitch” advertisement page appears on the same Cut off the surplus tape s so as to leave sheet as a page of text: if the former ends, called .. slips/ . J aboufc 2in at were remove.. TX xwid a page of side. Square up the book, put it in the text. With a damp sponge moisten the P ress a g ain to flatten it, and then paste the paste at the bacx and cut the threads of end papers the sewing, or pull out the wire stitches. I r» . t L i Remove any odd bits of sewing thread, * u t the book next back upwards in the and check up the pages to see that they |] press, as shown in part section in Fig. 2, are all there and in their proper order. II w *tn the slips of tape against the end If it is possible to obtain an index and anC * °t waste strawboard at title pages, these should be placed at the the sides. Brush the exposed back edges commencement of the volume. Next pre- £"» 4 S^ u . e ’ allow it to set a pare the “end papers”, which may be of FIG. I little. Remove it from the press,- and any good strong white printing paper. round the back by pressing the middle of Fold a sheet into half and cut it exactly ' , e fore-edges inwards with the fingers to the size of the magazine. Lay one of . ‘ ,ammerirl K“ le back of the bindings, these white sheets at each end of the book ° r '.., on one st<3e > then on the other, aaid put the whole into an old copying I VwX&TjS' r>i assumes the well known shape, press or into such an arrangement as is I Flace the whole in . the press with showi. in Fig. I—using1—using two good stout // ail! straw'boards at each side, level up and hardwood battens about 2in square fl complete the back shaping. across a strong flat board about 16;n long fl Cut the binding boards to size from and Win wide. These are drawn to- Mx l| »// xy** short strawboard and fa-sten them by glue gether as shown by four strong bolts with V a HlliW ICO tO le str *P s ta P e , covering in the inside fly-nuts. The whole of the sections to be I' | |!G. C w ’th the en d papers. The book is then bound, as well as the end papers, should covered with fancy cloth, thin leather or be left flat in the press for at least a day, each, but about gin away. Next lay any selected material, the most servicethe n ats of the press bting tightened as sections face downwards on a table, pin able being bookbinders’ cloth. This is much as possible. Next remove the book three pieces of tape to the table and lead pasted to the strawboard, the overlapping from the press, hold it between two flat them upw’ards to any convenient support, edges being turned in, and pressed flat boards, and strike it sharply on the table such as a board resting on two boxes; with a warm flat iron. A few cuts here to make all tire sections level at the top or draw the tapes tight and pin to the sup- and there, especially at the corners, may “ head ” and th e front or “ fore-edge”. port. These tapes must lie naturally be necessary to get the cloth to lie flat. When the sections are perfectly square against the space between the parallel cuts. The surplus cloth at head and tail is replace them in the press with about -gin The sewing operation is carried out with turned in and glued. Cover papers are of th« back projecting. Screw the press a needle and stout thread, as follows: then pasted on to the inside of the tightly enough to hold the sections, and Open a section at the centre, pass covers, and the lettering applied to comthen carefully test with a carpenter’s the needle and thread through the plete the work.