tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744256061316511342024-03-12T21:45:02.566-07:00Single FlexibleA bookbinding blogMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-28991268898578061382016-12-26T06:00:00.001-07:002016-12-26T06:00:19.961-07:00Panther Peak???I stole the name. Unabashedly and without shame. I think Diane still resents me for it, just a little bit.<br />
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Her folks moved to Tucson in the early 1960s. They lived in the East side of town and bought a house in a development that went bankrupt. That meant there were many acres of desert around their house at the outset.<br />
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Over time it got more and more crowded and paved. Hilly roads were flatted. Dirt roads were paved. People came and built and came and built and came and built. Her mom got tired of it and all the people.<br />
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She looked around, thought about moving to Alaska, but instead found the property we currently own. The reason they moved here was the views of the mountains! The northernmost peak in the Tucson range is Panther Peak.<br />
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Diane was shocked they would move so far out of town. Strangely, folks that grew up in Tucson feel that the East side of town is the best place to live. Folks like me who moved here, think they’d rather live anyplace in Tucson except the East side. It’s too far away from everything, which is ironic because we’re pretty remote where we currently are.<br />
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As a joke Diane named their place "Panther Peak Ranch." She even painted a sign for them and I think she hung it up when they were away. The sign is about 20 years old and is now on the barn. It’s fantastic!<br />
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I loved the name and when we decided to wise up and move out here I wanted to call the business Panther Peak Bindery. It is a delightfully ridiculous name! Diane had aspirations of a publishing company using that name but relented. Eventually. Life isn’t fair.<br />
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Panther Peak is the northernmost peak in the Tucson Mountains, though it can’t really be seen from Tucson because Safford Peak is just on the Tucson side of it. Our secret, perhaps. It’s 3500 feet above sea level, and we’re at 2400 feet.<br />
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Enjoy the views of it from our property.<br />
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<br />Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-76797242647282587972016-12-19T06:00:00.000-07:002016-12-19T06:00:20.997-07:00Gifts!I can be kind of mean, but generally with good intentions.<br />
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When I was teaching the students would give me Christmas presents, at least they did for a few years until I told them to cut it out. They were paying a lot for their education and living in a very expensive city. There was no necessity to spend money they didn't have to give me a gift when, to me, it felt like hanging out with them every day was more than gift enough to me.<br />
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I did, however, want to give <i>them </i>gifts. But just giving them a gift didn't seem right, either. Not that it would sound like a bribe but the standard is to avoid the appearance of evil, not just not doing evil. And what's more evil than gift giving? Well, now I'm just getting confused.<br />
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I had brought in a table hockey game during my first year at the school. Lars had one at the radio station he worked at in Linköping and I thought it would be a great way to blow off steam and take a break from what could be a bit of pressure during the day. It worked pretty well, at least to my mind.<br />
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There was a school tournament, created to force students to get to know each other throughout the building. NPR did a story on it you can find <a href="http://www.pantherpeakbindery.com/game.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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But there was also the Stanislov Cup for the bookbinding program, I think named by Stacie Dolin. We had a trophy and everything. Or we did it might be in the trash by now for all I know.<br />
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But the point was that I would buy bookbinding related prizes during the year and give them away after the tournament. Nothing crazy, mainly books, tools and posters but it was fun looking for them through the year. And more fun giving them away. I wish I could have given them more, they certainly gave me a lot.</div>
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So in the season of giving it's nice to be reminding of all the students gave me during their time in Boston, and am grateful most of them still liked me even after I made them play table hockey against each other. Well, a few of them probably enjoyed it. Hopefully.</div>
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-29597549176705174992016-12-12T06:00:00.001-07:002016-12-12T06:00:10.640-07:00drape, not drapesA few weeks ago I wrote a post about the flexibily of spines and regulating how much they throw up. (<a href="http://singleflexible.blogspot.com/2016/10/throwing-up.html" target="_blank">That post can be found here</a>.) The other aspect of that equation in that post is the amount of drape in the paper being used in a binding.<br />
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This is an adhesive bound book where the pages don't drape. This is a problem for adhesive bindings becuase it means that the spine has to flex a lot in order for the book to be read. To my mind adhesive bindings need spines that barely flex in order to be durable. But, and perhaps more importantly to the end user, it's not too much fun because it takes too much effort to hold the book open to read.<br />
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The reason for the lack of drape in the above example is because the paper in the book has the grain going the wrong direction. One can think of grain in paper as minute toothpicks which align in one direction. The paper will fold (or drape!) along the direction of the toothpicks but wouldn't if the page was folded against the direction of them.<br />
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So, clearly you could fold a paper with the grain in this orientation from left to right and it would go well but if you wanted to fold the top edge down to the bottom you would have some issues.</div>
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And this would be the result. Here I am holding a group of pages with the grain running away from my hand. Notice how the pages don't drape at all.<br />
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Here is the same paper with the grain going in the opposite direction - it's running parallel to the floor, or away from you in this picture. You can see how the paper drapes, at least a bit. The fact that the paper drapes even this much creates less stress on the spine when the book is opened.<br />
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Of course the weight of the paper is an issue as well. With Bible paper it doesn't seem to matter all that much because it would drape well in either direction. It does matter for other issues I won't go into here.<br />
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The problem we have as binders is that printers don't care about this, they want to print the paper in the most effecient way. That causes many issues for binders in folding sections, rounding and backing, gluing up spines amongst others.</div>
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But that's pretty much the way the world works. When we built the house the plumber didn't care he was causing problems for the electrician. He did care when he would cause problem for the carpenter because that was me and my neighbor but if we weren't there it wouldn't have mattered to him.</div>
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Except the book was oversewn. If you read the post some weeks back you will see a discussion of "throwing up." Book spines need to throw up to allow for all the elements of the binding to work peaceably and harmoniously together. Sort of like Woodstock, you know.<br />
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Oversewing is used mainly to attach loose sheets together, but I have also seen it used in rebinding broken bindings of serials. They do not throw up at all so they have the effect of putting all the stress of the opening on the pages. When combined with the fairly lousy paper found in 1950 era serials you end up with a disaster that is pretty much impossible to correct.<br />
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This is how the spine on this book reacted when opened. Notice the spine is not flexing at all, so the paper is doing all the work.<br />
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The method is to sew gatherings of pages together and then sew those sets into one book block. If you look at this picture you can see thread going up and down, following the spine. That thread is holding together a set of pages.<br />
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The key to taking a book like this apart is to find that sewing, cut and remove it and then you can pull that set of pages off the rest of the book.</div>
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-43770828554781939502016-11-28T06:00:00.000-07:002016-11-28T06:00:08.797-07:00Don't step on my double wall boxPeople say stuff all the time. Some of it sounds great and right and important, but not all of it is really true.<br />
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One thing bookbinders hear is the importance of stepping the walls of double wall drop spine boxes. It sure sounds good and right and important.<br />
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When I make my double wall boxes, for large and heavy books I cut and glue together the walls of the trays.<br />
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So we did an experiment where we made two trays and then tore them apart. Guess what? No difference. It was extremely difficult to tear either of them apart. They both were over engineered. We didn't know which we were tearing apart until after the experiment so there was no cheating.</div>
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-60949750149389625542016-11-21T06:00:00.001-07:002016-11-25T06:42:20.432-07:00The Illegal Immigrant from SwedenI love the mundane. I don’t find it boring or meaningless. I love all it tells and find what is common to be rich, interesting, and full of life. You just need to look beyond the words, read between the lines.<br />
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My Swedish grandfather, my father’s father, was an illegal immigrant who jumped ship in New York. He stayed in New York City for a while before bouncing around Colorado, Illinois, and Nebraska, always one step ahead of Immigration and their attempts to deport him. He didn’t accomplish any great things, but his life tells the story of immigration, or at least one immigrant who came here to escape a circle of poverty.<br />
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He came from a long line of tenant farmers who faced bouts in debtor’s prison and the like. It clearly was not a happy life in Sweden and he got out the only way he could, it seems. Worked on a boat and took off when it moored in the city.<br />
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He died before I was born, and I never heard much about him when I was growing up. He came from Linköping. His family had lived in that part of Sweden for centuries.<br />
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Never knowing him, and not hearing much about him, made me curious. My father had this book of his and it fascinated me when I was younger. It’s funny how much it says about him and his life, but not in words exactly.<br />
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To me this book says more about him, and his life, than a diary would have.<br />
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Here is the book. A limp leather binding, about 5 x 8 inches. It was not an expensive book, was meant to be an account book of some type, but he bought it to use as a notebook.<br />
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He used this book for several years. The earliest writings are from his time in New York City, but on the front flyleaf he’s written his locations as Osceola, Nebraska, and Rockford, Illinois—two of the three cities he ran between to avoid being deported.<br />
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Many of his early writings are songs in Swedish. Some religious, some not. He was not a religious person but had attended the state church until his confirmation and I think he just liked music and singing.<br />
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This page sort of makes me laugh. It is a reference from the Michigan Avenue Garage and says two things that aren’t true. One is that he had worked there since 1902. He didn’t leave Sweden until several years later. The other is that he is a sober and industrious young man. From what I learned from my father we can say that he was a young man. Let’s leave it at that.<br />
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I think the fact that I was so fascinated by this book was an omen that I would enjoy doing what I do now. Preserving the small and seemingly insignificant stuff that can mean and tell so much. And often in a much more interesting way than the broad and “important.”<br />
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Folks ask what I’ve enjoyed working on the most and they want to hear it’s all the old stuff, but really it’s the stuff that has a story to tell that’s worth preserving. Even it’s the story of a poor Swedish immigrant who spent years running from deportation.<br />
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Eventually World War I began and he joined the army, and in so doing he became a citizen and his problem was solved. He served in Colorado and settled in Denver where my father was raised near Washington Park.<br />
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In 1980 I attended college in Linköping and was able to walk around streets that would have been familiar to him. In a way it felt like completing a circle for him.<br />
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Gold leaf needs an adhesive. When putting gold on leather bindings the traditional adhesive, called a glaire, was egg whites. More modern glaires like Fixor or BS Glaire, use shellac. Here is a blog post I made on making your own glaire: <a href="http://singleflexible.blogspot.com/2012/02/fixor-finis.html" target="_blank">you can find it here.</a> It was part of a struggle to figure out why I was being sent unusable Fixor (a modern glaire) without any real logical explanation and then figuring out how to easily make better glaire, that actually worked for less cost.<br />
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A hundred years ago gold leaf was used on cloth bindings as well. But you can’t use a liquid glaire on cloth because it would stain. You could, I suppose, make an impression and then carefully put the gold in that space, but if the impression was made using a blocking press, you’d have to fill the impression without moving the book in the press and . . . it would be pretty much impossible I think.<br />
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Blocking powder is a powdered glare. It is also made from shellac.<br />
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I first learned about blocking powder in Sweden where Per Cullhed used it when tooling. He would use Fixor for his gold tooling. But there are often losses in tooling, places where the gold doesn’t stick. You try again with the gold and if it doesn’t stick the second time often you have to re-glaire the spot. And then wait for the glaire to dry before proceeding. It takes time. Some might think it wastes time.<br />
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Per would use blocking powder in the spots that needed reglairing, which meant that he could re-tool the spot immediately and successfully.<br />
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When I returned from Sweden I tried to buy it from the usual suppliers, but no one had it. A while ago, many years after returning from Sweden, I asked around and found a few recipes.<br />
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I made this one and it’s worked really well. It’s from Pleger’s book, Bookbinding and Its Auxiliary Branches, Part 3: Blank, Edition and Job Forwarding, Finishing and Stamping, on page 234:<br />
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1 part gum sandarac<br />
1 part gum mastic<br />
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I mixed them in a coffee grinder to a very fine powder and ended up with about a third of a cup. Which is a lot considering how little is used each time.<br />
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David Lanning, of Hewit Leather, had another recipe:<br />
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75% Finely Ground Shellac<br />
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There is no question that would work as well.<br />
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It’s interesting to note that Pleger does not like using “gilding powder.” He writes, “. . .beyond the lettering of individual names in addition to the afore-mentioned materials it should not be used. . . .”<br />
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Pleger actually has two other recipes, one using gutta-percha which I wanted to use because it sounded like a fun thing to use, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. In spite of its use in dentistry, and that my sister works in the dental industry, I couldn’t find it anywhere.<br />
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I purchased the materials from Kremer Pigments. The cost of the three items in the first recipe was about $60 for what feels like a lifetime supply.<br />
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To use the powder you take a fine bristled brush and dust it evenly over the area you are filling in. You might have to vary the heat of the tool a little bit, of course. Then pick up the gold and tool it.<br />
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It really is just like any other finishing. I do think it would be a bit of a pain to use it over a whole cover, but I might be wrong about that. And we know that Pleger would have words with you if you did that.<br />
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Try it. You’ll end up thanking Per! And he deserves it.<br />
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Book cloth is another item that can be ruined by improper storage. Sometimes it can be kept on the tube it came on, like the blue cloth roll in this picture, but that can waste space as well. No one has enough space and every inch can be important. But sometimes cloth isn’t in any shape conducive to being stored with other cloth on a shelf, though a bunch of unsupported rolls of cloth can be fine together.</div>
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It seems the answers to most of life’s problems can be found at Home Depot or IKEA. Well, sometimes the answers are duct tape and WD-40. I guess for bookbinding, it’s mainly the first two. For stuff around the house, it’s the tape and lubricant. Confusing, I know. What if the bindery is in a house? How do you decide? I’m getting dizzy here.</div>
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A few years after my search, I was in an Ace Hardware and saw these tubes. They are 4 inches and are sort of corrugated so they have plenty of strength. They come in 10 foot lengths, so I chopped them in half. I need to put caps on the back ends, because things are so dusty here in the boonies where there is no grass to hold the dust down.</div>
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No doubt there are tons of solutions for this problem, but this works well for me. Not only does it protect the cloth but makes it easy to keep it organized as well. And if you can’t find stuff, you might as well not even have it. If only I had room for more. . . .</div>
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-53717774967675998202016-10-31T06:00:00.000-07:002016-10-31T06:00:16.081-07:00Artifact or Book?A book and an artifact might look exactly the same. But they are completely different things and need to be treated differently.<br />
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A book is only important because of its content. The words on the page are all that matters. For that reason it is not all that important or necessary to save the binding and related materials.<br />
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An artifact is a book-as-object in which the book’s significance exists beyond its content, or even the physical object itself. Who owned it, how did they use it, where did they keep it, why did they have it, did they read it? What mattered to them?<br />
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What can be difficult is that what makes something an artifact is most often something outside the object itself.<br />
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You might have two books on a table that look exactly the same. What are they: books or artifacts? Let’s say that one of them was owned by me. The other one went to the moon. Or one book was in Jefferson’s library and the other one belonged to an Athenaeum someplace.<br />
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Knowing that information would greatly alter the approach to the repair of the object. An artifact requires that the repair be as unobtrusive and unintrusive as possible. It requires that all (ALL!) original pieces be saved and hopefully reused. If they can’t be reused they should be stored with the object, perhaps in a box with drawer.<br />
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But it doesn’t need to have been held by Lincoln to be an artifact! A book you used as a child and want to have repaired so you can gift it to your grandchildren would also be an artifact.<br />
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Why does it matter? Because the object itself tells a story.<br />
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How was it covered? In leather? Does that indicate the wealth of the owner? Does it indicate the culture they came from and what they valued in a binding?<br />
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What kind of leather? That might indicate the local economy, the kinds of animals raised around there. In might say something about the leather industry in that part of the world.<br />
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This can go on and on. What kind of paper was used? How was it printed? What was the structure of the binding? What techniques were used?<br />
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All of these questions tell stories, and all of them add up to paint a picture of a place and time and a person.<br />
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Removing an original binding erases all those elements and destroys the picture.<br />
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Of course with marginalia it’s clear how that contributes to the story. Seeing the notes of famous people shows what they were thinking when they read a particular passage. Their unguarded thoughts, who they actually were, and what triggered their reactions.<br />
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But a child’s marginalia, your marginalia from your youth, can be just as important and significant as Washington’s. It tells a story, tells something about you.<br />
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The sad part of this story is the movement away from books to mobile devices. No covers, no paper, no marginalia. No stories for them to tell.<br />
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But what is sadder is binders putting new, overly-decorated covers on old books—books which had very nice, functional, and usable bindings that told stories, told a part of history—and then calling that work conservation. It’s not. It’s the opposite of conservation. It’s the opposite of conservation!<br />
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I recently saw a tarted-up binding done for a first edition of The Book of Mormon. Lots of gold, lots of leather, lots of wow. The binder posted it as an example of conservation. I’m sure the owner asked for it to be done. I wonder if the binder talked to them about the value of conservation over rebinding. Of the history in the binding, perhaps of the monetary value of having the original binding repaired. Perhaps there was no cover and that wasn’t an option. Still it made me a bit sad.<br />
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As a private binder and conservator I often tell my clients the difference and then let them tell me if their item is a book or an artifact. Often they are not historically significant books in the traditional sense, but they are significant to them and their family. In that case the owners are the only ones who can make that distinction.<br />
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But at least the question is asked and discussed. And the decision is almost always the right one because the question has been asked. It’s when the question never comes up that unfortunate things<br />
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A friend of ours, Chris Andrews, is a fine art airbrush artist. When I started using an airbrush for leather dye I had him come out and give Bailey and me a lesson on how to use it, how to keep it from acting up and how to best clean it when it starts acting up.<br />
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2. Clean by spraying ten or fifteen seconds using an everyday cleaner which I keep in a bottle so it's always ready to use. Then I follow by spraying water through the spraybrush for another ten or twenty seconds. I just spray into a garbage can. The plastic bottles are cheap enough that it's easy to just have these two bottles filled and ready to go.<br />
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This has reduced the amount of maintence work I've had to do on the brush drastically.<br />
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3. Use a mask. Seems that using a dust mask is enough for leather dyes, but for the fixative I use a respirator since it seems to get everywhere. Maybe the fixative is what ruined my glasses?<br />
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The brush should be taken apart and cleaned when it starts acting up, which isn't very often if you use his cleaning regime.<br />
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He uses a larger, tool compressor. Sure, he's also painting for hours at a time, but they can be cheaper than some artist airbrush compressors and when up to pressure wouldn't need to run very often at all so they could be quieter as well.<br />
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I doubt any of this is revelatory, but to those of us new to the airbrush it was pretty helpful and time saving advice.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-5200763755377739352016-10-17T06:00:00.001-07:002016-10-17T06:17:22.278-07:00razor bladesWe use razor blades on our leather paring machines. My machine of choice has been the Brockman but many people use the Scharf-fix as well. Basically they are designed to hold razor blades at a fixed point so that when leather is drawn through the machine it removes an even amount of leather.<br />
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The Scharf-fix comes with blades, the Brockman didn’t. I should add that the Brockman is no longer made, which is a shame, but the cost was always higher than the Scharf-fix and they had trouble selling because of that. I find them easier to use, less finicky, and get better results.<br />
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I’ve heard a few horror stories about Scharf-fixes the past few years but the manufacturing of them has returned to Germany and hopefully the problems are a thing of the past. The problem is that the machine’s adjustments would change while people were making passes with leather, which resulted in uneven paring and wasted time and leather. And a bit of swearing as well, probably.<br />
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In the 1990s, I used to buy Wilkinson blades from the Bartell’s drugstore near my apartment in Seattle (65th and Roosevelt, if you care) and they were utterly fantastic. These were the days before the Internet so there was no simple way to buy a case of them. But the drugstore carried them all the time so there was no need.<br />
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What’s important to note, especially in regard to using blades in leather paring, is that sharpness is just one factor. Feathers are very sharp but don’t hold an edge long enough to really accomplish anything. I found them dulling before completing even one pass. For leatherwork they are worthless, but for shaving they’re great. Different purposes and uses, different results. On these sites they’ll talk about how many shaves they get before they go dull. That’s going to be a factor when paring leather.<br />
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Of course it’s really no different with knife sharpening. Some folks sharpen a knife and it just doesn’t hold an edge, others sharpen and it stays sharp for months and months. But in those cases you can’t blame the knife; with razor blades you can. Take advantage of that!<br />
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The political situation in Russia has had an interesting effect on razor blades. Thanks to Putin’s actions (well, Ukraine and Crimea, more than riding a horse without a shirt) the Ruble has lost much of its value over the past few years. That meant that blades could be bought pretty inexpensively. Good blades, too.<br />
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What was happening was that Russians were selling blades on eBay and taking payment via Paypal. To my understanding they would then leave the money in Paypal, which would insulate it from the decline value of the ruble. It was still dollars while it stayed in Paypal. Rather clever.<br />
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I bought several blades at that time. (As I’m writing this I see that these blades are selling on eBay for $5.00 per hundred blades, plus shipping from Russia.) The ones I purchased were made by Rapira: Platinum Lux and Swedish Supersteel; Voskhod, Super Stainless; Sputnik. I bought the Sputnik only because of the name. How could you not? I had tried the Ladas before and didn’t like them so I didn’t buy any of them.<br />
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The Platinum Lux has worked pretty well. I’ve used them on a few limp leather Bibles and find they do the job pretty well. And the same for the Swedish Supersteel.<br />
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I’ve used the other blades, especially for initial passes but have moved to these when I’m close to the desired thickness. The Sputniks haven’t done so well. Even the Vokshods have at times been a bit troublesome. But I have them so I try to use them.<br />
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Now there is an issue to bring up. There have been reports of counterfeit blades being sold on eBay. I think if you look at reviews and search the boards at Badger and Blade you’ll be able to find the reputable dealers. I’m not sure how selling five cent counterfeit blades can be profitable but then I don’t live in an economy like that.<br />
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Of course you can avoid the issue all together by buying blades from Israel or India or other countries who make some really nice blades. Check the reviews from the sites listed above.<br />
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There are several shaving sites which sell sample packs of blades. West Coast Shaving is one: <a href="https://www.westcoastshaving.com/">https://www.westcoastshaving.com</a>.<br />
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It may be a bit surprising that there are this many types of blades still available, and that there are many people still using them to shave. Sort of like vinyl records but I think a bit more substantial.<br />
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Spines on books generally need to flex. The amount that a spine flexes is called "throwing up," as in "how much does the spine throw up?" Maybe this came from drunken bookbinders, I don't really know.</div>
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This movement is regulated by how many paper linings are glued onto the spine before the covers are put in place. But it can be more clearly demonstrated by these two bindings.</div>
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This is a Coptic binding, which has no paper linings on the spine.</div>
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Without any linings the spine can flex completely back onto itself, as seen in this photograph. This is actually a great thing for the paper, but not so good for the sewing. All the stress of the opening is on the thread, but there is no stress on the paper at all.</div>
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Now take a look at this binding. Clearly with a wooden spine there is no possibility of the spine flexing at all.</div>
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As a result when the book is opened it is only the paper that moves in order to open the book. This is good for the sewing, but is not good for the paper. To look at the pages the paper needs to be pulled open, especially when the paper doesn't drape very well. Paper drape has a lot to do with the grain direction of the paper and how thin it is. Bible paper drapes really well because it is so thin. Heavier papers can still drape well if the grain direction is parallel to the spine of the textblock.</div>
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One likes a balance of the two, as in this picture. But the key to this is that one needs to consider both the qualities of the paper and the type of binding when deciding how many linings to put on a spine when putting a book together. With brittle paper you want the binding that flexes almost as much as the Coptic binding shown above to reduce stress on the paper. Without enough "throwing up" the pages will just snap off like the pages in the book I was working on. With good, flexible paper, where the grain is going in the proper direction, one can make a binding that's a bit tighter which can be good for the sewing and the binding.</div>
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It can be seen as a graph showing the relationship between spine throwing up and stress on paper. The challenge is to know where to end up with the finished book to best serve both elements. When deciding where to end up on this graph the whole consideration needs to be on the paper, its strength, its flexibility, its grain direction, and how well it drapes.</div>
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Finally, here is a picture of the spine of the book that I was working on. See how the spine doesn't flex at all? Did you get that the paper was extremely brittle? What they have done with this book is to pretty much insure that the book is going to break one page at a time along the stress point of the paper, which is a few millimeters up from the spine edge of the textblock. </div>
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I would argue that the binder destroyed the book in slow motion by over lining the spine. They also repaired tears along the first four or five pages, which means they were aware of the condition of the paper. But the material they used to repair the paper was too heavy which just exacerbated the problem. The pages were tearing along the repair, where they should have used a thinner material and extended the repair paper further out from the spine to support the paper beyond its stress point.</div>
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I told the client to get rid of the book if they can, it's only going to get worse. It could be conserved and saved, of course, but the first step would be to get rid of the binding, properly repair the pages and do a better job of putting it together. As always, it would have been cheaper and better just to do it right the first time.</div>
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<a href="http://singleflexible.blogspot.com/2016/06/kensol-vs-kwikprint-skirmish.html" target="_blank">Kensol vs. Kwikprint</a><br />
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-1314794744439154152016-09-26T06:00:00.000-07:002016-10-06T16:25:13.654-07:00web hosting comparisons, or stop throwing money away<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Simplicity is a wonderful thing. There's so much in life to grab our attention and time and finding simple solutions can be like a breath of fresh air. Sometimes it can even save money, like when you buy both popcorn and a drink at a movie and save a buck. That’s when you know society has reached its zenith.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The popular trend in websites has been web based programs like Squarespace, Wix or Weebly. There are several others as well. I think they are popular because they are simple for two reasons. One, they rely on templates so there is no need to figure out how you want your site to look. Secondly, they require you to place your site on their hosting service. Often there is no charge to create your site, instead they charge for making the site available to the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Now, everyone has their own motivations, points of view, and priorities. Thus they make different decisions. I suppose that’s part of what makes life so much fun and so diverse.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">When I had to rebuild my site when Freeway went out of business I looked into many options. I did the same test I had done when I went to Freeway, I spent two hours on various programs and saw how intuitive they were, what they could and could not and considered their cost.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I was not interested in a template driven site because it seemed much more work fitting my site into someone else’s vision. I think both iWeb and Freeway had made me crave total control over my site, something that a template could never provide.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I experimented with Blocs, which seemed like it was half template driven in that one built a site by adding blocks of content onto a page. Nice idea, but not for me even though it is pretty modifiable, if that’s a word. RapidWeaver was template driven. Wordpress seems popular because so many people use it, not because it’s all that great. Or so it seemed, at least when I wasn’t reading about how its security had more holes in it than Swiss cheese.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">As I wrote a few weeks back I found Sparkle which didn’t take two hours to figure out it was perfect for me. It has free templates available but they are not necessary and I think they are available because some people feel they them. After about fifteen minutes I had it mostly figured out, it was really no different than creating a Pages or Keynote document.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">But then I looked into the cost of web based programs and stand alone programs. Not because I was going to consider Squarespace and the others but I wondered how much folks were paying for their simplicity. It ends up that it’s like paying triple for a popcorn/soda combo in exchange for a sense of ease.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">But, to me, it’s not more simple than Sparkle at all unless you have a complicated site with lots of e-commerce. Selling a couple of things is pretty simple, like this site: <a href="http://kralikarna.com/A/">http://kralikarna.com/A/</a> But if you have a site like Hewit where you are selling a couple of hundred items you would need something more complex than Squarespace as well. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The real cost of a stand alone program is that you need to find your own hosting site. I’ve been using MeccaHosting for ten years now. It did take about five minutes to figure out where and how to post the site. I know friends who run screaming when they have to learn one more thing to make their phone do something, but the savings in taking that five minutes can be substantial.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">But maybe that’s the question: what are you willing to do in order to use a self standing program which is easier to use than a template but that requires you to spend five or ten minutes finding and setting up a hosting site? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The cost breakdowns are below. I selected the hosting options which were most comparable with my needs and what I'm getting currently with my program and hosting site.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sparkle & MeccaHosting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sparkle does not come with attached web hosting. Sparkle is $80.
MeccaHosting (whose support is as fast as Sparkle, meaning they almost answer
before you hit “send” on your question) charges $5 a month for hosting and
$2.50 for email. There is no question that Sparkle updates will add some to
this expense over five and ten years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Year 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$170<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(80 for Sparkle;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>60 hosting;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>30 email)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Year 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$90<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(60 hosting;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>30 email)<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">After five years:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$440<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">After ten years:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$985<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Squarespace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">This is template driven and one uses their hosting service in
exchange for the program. I chose the level that I would need for my
business site. Email is, I think, 50 a year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Year 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$266<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(216 hosting; 50 email)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">After five years:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$1330<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">After ten years<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>$2660<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Wix<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Same as Squarespace. Templates, need to use their hosting
service. Email is also 50 a year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Year 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>$254
(204 hosting; 50 email)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Templates, need to use their hosting service. I think it
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">Year 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> $</span>300
hosting<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">I find all these questions interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> A bit of a personality flaw, I'm afraid. </span>Personally, if I can have more creative
freedom with less effort and can save a chunk of money at the same time, well,
that’s for me. Clearly others have divergent views, and good on them! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 11.0pt;">For me, I’d rather spend my money on a vacation. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-19256350259260994962016-09-19T06:00:00.002-07:002016-09-19T06:00:10.218-07:00Guild of Book Workers awards<div style="text-align: center;">
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Some time ago I received an email asking me to vote for somone for an achievement award. For a minute I thought the world itself had turned into the People's Choice Awards. Not a pretty sight.<br />
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It made me appreciate how the Guild of Bookworkers decides on their two awards: The Laura Young Award, for service to the Guild, and the Lifetime Achievement Award for service to the field.</div>
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The Guild appoints three members who are established in their fields. A book artist, a binder and a conservator ideally, though often the fields overlap a bit. Then they put out the call for nominations, gather them and decide amongst the three of them.</div>
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No campaigning, no organizing, nothing. The decision is made without any influence, the comittee is left alone to decide.</div>
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If you look at who has received the awards you'll see how well they've done over the years. You can see here: https://guildofbookworkers.org/awards</div>
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This year Peter Verheyen is being given the Lifetime Achievement Award and Catherine Burkhard is receiving the Laura Young Award. Perfect choices, both of them.</div>
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Makes one kind of proud of the organization, I'd say.</div>
Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-51865890196243811112016-09-12T06:00:00.001-07:002016-09-12T06:00:09.046-07:00Kennedy newspaper treatmentI've received several questions over the years about the blog entry on The Christian Science Monitor newspaper encapsulation and binding project I posted a while ago. That post is here:<br />
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Over a year ago my intern, Bailey Kinsky, did a similiar project with a couple of newspapers on the Kennedy assassination. Except what she did was a bit more involved. I thought it would be interesting to see a more complete explanation of the process.</div>
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The first step is to separate the pages by cutting along the fold. One needs a sharp blade or the paper will rip and tear rather than cut and then paper repair would be needed.</div>
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Next the pages need to be interleaved with polyester. When the pages are being washed they cannot be handled. Wet paper tears! But wet paper will stick to this spun polyester. One sheet of the polyester is needed for each page being washed. The poly needs to be a bit larger than the sheets being washed.</div>
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Interestingly enough washing pages involves placing them into water baths. I didn't have a sink large enough for this project so I made one 4 feet square using melamine and 2 x 2s along with a bit of silicone caulk. </div>
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Each page was washed in three baths of water and then sized (a topic for another post). After being washed the pages were placed on photo screens to dry. At least initially!</div>
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Unfortunately I only had twenty screens. So we made do by using the polyester rolls as a drying base by spreading it around the bindery, holding them in place using weights. It sort of filled the bindery.</div>
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After the pages dried over night the encapsulation process began. Encapsulating is not laminating! The pages end up floating between two pieces of inert plastic, formerly called mylar. Well, still called mylar even though the offical name has changed.</div>
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Double sided archival tape is then applied to the mylar a few millimeters out from the page. This work is done on a pattern which was drawn on a piece of craft paper. By working on a pattern the pages and the tape will all align when the work is completed.</div>
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Once the pages are all encapsulated they are attached to each other. Often filler is necessary along the spine edge so that the spine will be as thick as the pages.</div>
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The pages are then sewn together. This style of binding was developed by Bill Anthony and shown to me by Mark Esser.</div>
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A cover is made, which in this case was a bit of a project in itself.</div>
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The cover was attached to the text block and a label applied.</div>
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The beauty of this process is that the pages are pretty much untouched in the binding. They can be removed quickly and easily, unlike laminating where they are stuck between plastic and cannot be easily removed.<br />
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This is an extremely fun process to go through, I wish I could do it more often. Recently I did a binding of this type which had some rather extreme challenges. I'll post on that in the future. It's yet one more example of dare devil bookbinding!</div>
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Season’s greetings, everyone!<br />
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In honor of the start of football season here’s a project I did while I was a student.<br />
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My parents had season tickets to the Washington Huskies. In 1990 they attended the USC game played at Husky Stadium on the shore of Lake Washington. Probably the most beautiful site for a football stadium in the country. And that’s not just my opinion.<br />
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After the game when the USC quarterback was interviewed, he said, “All I saw was purple. No jerseys, no numbers, just purple.” It’s going to be like that again this year. Promise. (If you want to learn more about the game look here: http://tinyurl.com/hveqegd )<br />
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That game helped to foretell great things. The team won the national championship the next year.<br />
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At the game, a commemorative program of the team’s first hundred years was given out, and my folks sent me their copy.<br />
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Later that year at school, I wanted to do something special with it because of how events had turned out in the following months. I was kind of into making pastepapers, and thought that would be a good medium for my idea.<br />
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I put down yellow paste first, to hopefully give the field some depth. After that I mixed the green and put it down by stippling with a brush. Then I made a frame of sorts so that I could put a ruler above the paper to draw the yard lines. I didn’t want it to look perfect. I wanted it to be a bit less formal, so I drew the numbers on the field and the lines with a bone folder. Pretty much free hand all around.</div>
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<br />Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-20691688509866733232016-08-29T06:00:00.000-07:002016-08-29T07:13:36.560-07:00years ending in 6 have been good... part 2<div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;">1996<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It all really started in the late
1800s when so many Scandinavians moved to Seattle that English wasn’t even
spoken in some neighborhoods and households. Norwegians, mainly, who moved
there to do what they had done in Norway: fish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">My grandmother, born in Minnesota,
moved to Seattle in 1901 when she was two. She spoke only Norwegian at home,
with friends, shopping—until she started school—all Norwegian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So many Scandinavians moved to
Washington State that part of the charter for the University of Washington
required the school to have a Scandinavian Department. The charter calls for,
not just a few classes covering that part of the world, but a whole department.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Another result of this migratory influx
was that my high school offered Swedish as a foreign language. I took it for
three years. Swedish appealed to me because my father’s father came from Sweden
(settling in Denver), while my mother’s four grandparents were from Norway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Norwegian was taught at Ballard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Danish was also available at a high school,
but I can’t remember where.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Because of my high school Swedish
classes, I managed to be in the receiving team to greet the king of Sweden when
he came to Seattle. Didn’t actually shake his hand, but if I remember right, I
wore platform shoes, just to be extra fancy. I certainly didn’t cut my
hair, though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">After high school I attended the
University of Washington and took Scandinavian classes—mostly because they were
smaller than classes in my major. I accidentally took enough classes to get a
degree. Anyway, as an undergrad at Washington I spent a semester in Linköping, which
is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not </i>pronounced “Link-o-ping,” as
my wife believes, but “Lynn-shipping,” as the Swedes say. Linköping happens to
be the very town from which my grandfather had emigrated illegally. There I met
Lasse who is still my dearest friend, even though he is so inconsiderate in
that he and Maria have the nerve to live about ten thousand miles from Arizona.
I love them, but clearly they are bad people. Well, just for that reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I loved it there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Fast forward to 1992, when I finished
at North Bennet Street. My goal upon graduating was to get more training but
without having to pay for it. First I wanted to take the time to relearn
everything we had covered in school, which I did in my evenings for a few
years. After I had gotten comfortable with most of what we had covered at NBSS,
I applied to several grants to study in Sweden somewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In 1996 it happened. Thanks to the graciousness of Per
Cullhed and Lars Munkhammar (and the Fulbright program) I had the opportunity
to work and study in the library at Uppsala University. Their graciousness was
equally spread amongst the others in the lab: Adam Larsson, Lars Bjordal, Bosse
Carlsson and Åke. (Åke was 63 at the time and had started in the field
when he was 13!) It was a fantastic year amongst even more fantastic people, in
a great country. Even taking the wrong bus en route to Linköping was kind of
fun. Ended up in Lidköping. Clearly my Swedish wasn’t so great.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It was the year that made everything
else possible. What did I do? I made books, studied structures, laughed,
swore in Swedish because it didn’t sound like swearing to me, went to Helsinki
and Copenhagen, and made more books. I also bought as many books as I could
afford. At the end of the year, one of
the other Fulbrighters told me that I was the only one of us who had done what
I set out to do. I think that was probably true, but it was only true because
the folks who hosted me, helped me do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">People ask me what the year in Sweden
was like and I tell them this story, which perfectly sums up the spirit of the
entire year: By the end of the year, my finances were smaller than slim. When
packing to come home, I tried to get a bunch of stuff into three suitcases each
less than 30 kilos (maybe it was 25, not sure). Gave everything else away. I
knew I’d have to pay for the third bag, and probably for all the bags, which
were overweight a tad—a real concern given my empty pockets. When Lasse and I
got in line at the airport a man walked up and asked where I was going. Seattle,
I said. He said, Come with me. We lugged my bags over and set them down next to
a counter. The computers had just gone down, he said, and they weren’t charging
for extra bags or extra weight. I just had to weigh the suitcases and put them
on the conveyor. Pretty much the whole year was like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">After finishing, I went back to the
University of Washington and began working part time so that I could do more
private work. I was looking forward to doing that for years. The Mendery at
Washington was a nice place to be—gave me great experience and I got football
tickets. The Huskies were even good at the time. I was preparing to work at UW
half time and looking forward to that arrangement very much. There was lots of
interesting work up in Seattle for private practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But then, and I think because of the
time in Sweden, NBSS called and asked me to run the bookbinding department. I
went out for an interview, it all worked out, and then I flew back to Seattle where
I spent the final few weeks working until two or three in the morning to finish
off my private work, Mendery work, and pack. Slept a few hours a night; managed
to keep eating. It was a bit tiring but an exciting time. Early August I drove
out in a rental truck to a new life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Taught at NBSS for almost ten years. Probably
should have moved on in 2006 to keep up the decade theme, but we moved to the
desert in 2007 instead. A move that was possible because of my time in Sweden.
A Fulbright carries some weight, even if folks don’t really know what it was
for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">During my time in Massachusetts, I
helped get Adam over here to teach; first at NBSS and helped some on a grand tour,
maybe cracked opened some doors for him. I was able to see Per and Bosse when
they came over for meetings. And for several years students from NBSS went to
Uppsala for a couple of months in the summer. They all loved being there as
much as I had. And when I think about that year those are the things that I'm happiest about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">One really nice thing that reminded
me of it all happened last Spring when I was teaching in San Francisco. I saw
that someone I’ve never even met was teaching a binding technique that I had
brought back from Sweden. I had taught it to Juliayn, who had taught it to
them, and they were now teaching it to others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">That’s what the year 1996 was really
about, after all. It wasn’t so much about me spending time in Sweden, but more
about sharing knowledge across borders. And that’s what it did to a T. But I’ll
take all the other benefits as well . . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And to think it all started with
Norwegian fishermen heading out of Ballard looking for salmon a hundred years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-54369033790820433942016-08-22T06:00:00.000-07:002016-08-23T06:29:48.398-07:00I can see clearly now, the schmutz is goneI kept having friends complain about the state of my glasses and wondering how I could see anything. The problem was that I didn't have time to get new ones and I don't really enjoy doing all that anyway so I kept putting it off.<br />
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Part of my reason for not moving ahead was that I wanted to know what had happened to cause this. I have never had this problem before and didn't want to spend good money and have it happen again.</div>
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The glasses were bought at Costco. When I went there and asked the guy why this had happened he said it was because I probably sweat on them and it destroyed the coatings. Look, I work hard as a binder and conservator but I don't really sweat much in doing the work. I don't like to turn the A/C on until it gets to about 80 or so but still I'm not sweating.</div>
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I have, in my life, done real work where I did sweat and my glasses didn't react this way. One summer I repaired a pier on the Seattle waterfront. Replacing the flooring of a parking area with pieces of 12" x 16" x 10 foot long pieces of wood that had to be cut with a chain saw to fit. It was fun. The only concern was falling into the water 30 feet below but at that point in my life that would have just been a big laugh. </div>
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I knocked out the old pieces, dropping them into the water below, cut replacement pieces with the chain saw, placed them and then used spikes to hold them in place before applying asphalt over the top. It was really fun, beautiful weather and tourists watching from the ferry terminal on the next pier over made me want to give them a bit of a show.</div>
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The point is that I sweated a lot and still didn't have this happen to my glasses.</div>
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So, I'm in Seattle getting my eyes checked and asked the guy why it happened. His response was, "Do you work with chemicals? The fumes can cause this to happen."</div>
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AHA! That actually makes sense. But I didn't know that chemical fumes could cause that kind of damage to lenses.</div>
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I don't have a fume hood, instead I have a portable device that sucks air away from what I'm working on and filters it. Sometimes I'll just work outside, there's no one within a hundred yards of where I'm working so I don't think I'm hurting anyone. Still this exposes my glasses to more fumes than if I had a hood. (Though I should say I'm not using anything that's crazily toxic.)</div>
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But mainly, I'm going to be using my old glasses for this kind of work. And keeping my new ones away from the chemicals. Hopefully they'll last longer that way. </div>
Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-39367498313013017292016-08-15T06:00:00.000-07:002016-08-15T06:00:00.254-07:00Cash across the water, cash across the sea....<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Interweb is a great thing. It removes borders and
boundaries and makes everything accessible to all. Or at least to those who
have computers and an Internet connection. For bookbinders and conservators
that means that we can order and use the best materials from across the globe
regardless of where they originate and wherever we are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I'm grateful that I can order from Colophon Book Arts
Supply and have it appear on my doorstep. It's wonderful. Same for Chena River
Marblers, Hiromi, Hollander’s, Ernest Schaeffer, Talas and others. This is how
it’s possible to make a living binding and conserving books while living on the
backside of a desert mountain range.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But I think that we sometimes forget the benefits of
buying directly from sources across the pond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Both Harmatan and Hewit sell directly to customers in the
States. I think most of us know this but don’t take advantage of it as often as
we should. Most of us know Harmatan and Hewit from Standards, or various other venues
around the country. Marc Lamb is at Harmatan and David Lanning is at Hewit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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finishes. Hewit sells calf, goat, alum tawed, pigskins, and vellum plus
equipment and supplies. Go to their sites and look around. Have your credit
card handy—you’ll want to use it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">None of this is new, or unknown, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone knows both companies make great
skins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that most of the skins
I’ve used since I started this about 26 years ago has come from those two
companies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also all know that Marc
and David are great people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we know
we can buy direct, but many don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It seems clear that Brexit has done a number on them, well,
all of the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Who knew that shooting yourself in the foot might not be the best idea?? Gee, maybe you google it before you vote. Maybe?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But it also has done
something for us, in the stronger dollar next to the pound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like Brexit put everything in England on
sale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Funny thing is that even with the
“sale” situation it benefits them if we buy from them even at our reduced
price.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I think what discourages people from ordering directly is
concern about shipping charges. But last week I ordered one yard of book cloth from
Talas and the charges were $21.50 for the cloth and $18.47 for shipping. I'm
not saying that Talas isn't justified to charge so much to ship one yard of
cloth—they need to stay in business. What I’m saying is that you can't
look at shipping charges from England and assume the charges within the States
will be much less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re going to be
stunned when you see how much it costs to ship a bone folder across a dozen
states. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">David says, "Shipping rates to the United States are
very competitive, so should not come as too much of a shock to the
wallet." Maybe I should order a yard of book cloth from Hewit and see what
it would be. Harman’s rates for leathers are also reasonable and fair. Marc
says he recently sent a 12-skin order over here for $90.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">To me there are two main advantages from buying directly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Available stock. How many green Harmatan Fine
Leather skins do you think a domestic distributor has in stock? Or how many red
Hewit Chieftan skins? The selection is going to be much better at the factory.
If you want a fire engine red Chieftan of a certain size, the folks in Scotland
will be able to look through more skins, probably from differently dye lots
too, to find the color you're looking for. Skins come in different sizes
so more choices can help there as well. Here's a picture from Harmatan showing
what they had around when the class stopped by for a visit several years ago.
Enough to make you either drool, or plunge into a life of crime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Secondly, they both offer the ability to modify or select
the thickness of the skins. Why not just get skins the thickness you want
without having to buy them and then send them off to a splitter? Hewit will
shave skins down as requested. Harmatan will split them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Both companies sell a variety of skins for a variety of
purposes. They also make it very easy to buy across currencies. Did I already
mentioning that with the current political situation in England the pound is really
low, so it’s almost like everything over there is on sale. Take advantage!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Hewit also sells all kinds of other stuff as well,
including leather dye. The Hewit leather dye is fantastic, light-stable, and
easy to use. I talked with the author of a study of leather dyes who said that
Hewit dyes are the best ones available in the States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The way I use it is shown in this YouTube
video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqQND_lV1ew"><span style="color: #103cc0;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqQND_lV1ew</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hewit also sells
finishing tools, glaire, paper, cloth, other tools and equipment, really
everything you’d need to do binding. It’s a great resource.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Harmattan has chosen to stick only to leathers, but what a
selection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Of course it will take a bit longer to get your order from
the UK unless you choose the fast, expensive option. We in the Guild would love
it if you would buy directly from them is to buy from them at Standards. It's
in Charleston in a few weeks and in Tacoma in 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Heck, Hewit will sell you leather for your bagpipes. I bet
if you buy enough of them they’ll send you a kilt for free. Or at least a can
of Haggis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.hewit.com/"><span style="color: #103cc0; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.hewit.com</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It was easy enough to die stamp, using the honeycomb chase that came with it. But when I started looking into doing multi-line stamping I was a bit shocked. It was going to cost me about four times the price of the machine to do some titling on books. I wasn’t interested.<br />
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To my understanding the method is to place type in these pallets:<br />
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I believe this is to allow for proper centering and alignment. But it also allowed for spending too much money, which didn’t interest me. You’d need one pallet for each line and then the chase to put them in. The ability to do five lines would be a bit over 750 bucks with shipping. And that would be for one font size. You’d really need a set for every size of type, to my understanding.<br />
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I’d stick with my Kwikprint for titling. It worked perfectly fine.<br />
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Then I started thinking about what they had used in Sweden. I looked through my pictures, but had never photographed their method for putting type in a chase. Still, it gave me an idea.<br />
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A block of aluminum isn’t all that expensive. I went to Grainger and found aluminum that would be the right size, and it was well under a hundred dollars. Around that time a friend came by and we were talking about it. He’s this insanely nice guy who seems to think that my problems are his problems.<br />
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He said he’d take some scrap aluminum he had and would mill it down to whatever dimensions I wanted. I wanted it the size of my dovetail mount, so about 5 x 8 inches.<br />
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This is what I ended up with. All I had to do was drill out and tap in a couple of screws to attach it to the dovetail.<br />
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When it’s set up it looks like this. The key is to have enough spacers to even out the lengths of the lines. It also helps to put strips of paper along each line to even out any microscopic differences in the sizes of the type. If you don’t do that, letters will fall out. Lastly, you need to put pretty good pressure on the type or it will fall out. But not like Superman pressure. More like Lois Lane pressure.</div>
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Obviously, you can line up the titling any way you want. There are many ways to do it. If I’m only doing one or two books, I’ll make up a piece of binder’s board and place it on the book where I want it. Then I’ll push the book until it just touches it on two sides, clamp the book down, and stamp. Works great, and is really quick.</div>
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I’m sure there are other ways to stamp multiple lines on a Kensol that don’t involve buying a dozen or so backbone pallets and a chase or two, but this way worked for me and for only a bit over $200 or so. A machinist could do this easily and for not much money, so that shouldn’t scare you off.</div>
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-29116278193735180262016-08-01T06:00:00.000-07:002016-10-06T15:50:11.552-07:00SparkleOur neighbor was a big time photographer with more than 500 magazine covers in his career. He was hired regularly to shoot corporate officers and other images for annual reports at ridiculously high daily rates. Well, he was very, very good at what he did so it was worth it to them! The NFL also hired him and he photographed the first 30 Super Bowls. He was the first to put a camera in a hockey goal during a game, running the shutter release under the ice to the penalty box where he sat. He did a television commercial. He did it all. He has amazing stories, to say the least.<br />
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He had a thriving career and then digital photography came along. His expectation was that the business would peter out over a period of years but instead it plunged and he was done. He moved to Arizona and onto his favorite thing in the world—rattlesnakes. During his time here he has written several books on them, photographs them, studies them, and loves them. He’s the one who catches them when we spot one and takes them safely away.<br />
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But the point is this: When digital photography came around anyone could take or create a decent picture. No longer was proper lighting essential. The image could be lightened in Photoshop. Composition could be altered later. Heck, even the pyramids could be moved if they needed to be closer. Technology replaced knowledge and skill.<br />
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Being a one-person shop, I do the conservation, binding, and teaching. I love the diversity. I’m also the accountant, the guy who answers the phone, and the shipping department. I really enjoy it all.<br />
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But I’m also the web site programmer. Funny, because I’m a bookbinder and all I know about coding is that it uses 1 and 0.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRzTP1y5kjgzQNTvBZAI291D6HHXebj-VnB6gcV9JRAEJfC8pJFwMm-LLKGKLUxbIVvIHBpYciDRyoDrWkmCgxdedIcE0PK0Anj5K7Srp43qFjQyzda8yUZxxOUs95iDcenO0erHrxxIAI/s1600/Unknown-2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRzTP1y5kjgzQNTvBZAI291D6HHXebj-VnB6gcV9JRAEJfC8pJFwMm-LLKGKLUxbIVvIHBpYciDRyoDrWkmCgxdedIcE0PK0Anj5K7Srp43qFjQyzda8yUZxxOUs95iDcenO0erHrxxIAI/s200/Unknown-2.jpeg" width="200" /></a>When I started out I used iWeb, Apple’s web program. It was really the best of Apple in that it took a rather complicated task and made it amazingly simple. Drag and drop, resize on the screen, move stuff around, add page links, and it would write the code for it all. I still think it was the best thing Apple ever did—taking a complicated task and simplifying it to a seemingly impossible degree.<br />
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After a few years, though, Apple announced they were going to stop developing it. I suppose because there were other options out in the world. Though folks are still using iWeb today, it didn’t make sense to stick with it because without updates one could never be sure it would continue to be compatible with newer operating systems.<br />
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I moved on to a program called Freeway. It was a bit harder to wade through, but it was also drag and drop, WYSIWYG. Though more complicated than iWeb, Freeway had more features and allowed me to make a site with more useful pages. Folks could sign up for my email list. I could sell t-shirts, and other stuff. I liked it very much.<br />
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Then websites needed to be responsive.<br />
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Responsive means that sites need to resize and reorient themselves to fit the size and shape of each device. It is a great thing because it doesn't make sense to use an iPhone to look at a site that built for a screen ten times the size.<br />
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This complicated things with Freeway. One could make a site where each chunk of information took up x percentage of the screen, so that the chunks would shrink with smaller screens. But then things might do crazy things like move to places you didn’t want them. I remember spending a few hours trying to get my footer to stay in place at the bottom of a screen to keep my icons in the proper location and properly orientated to each other. (The icons were to my Facebook page, this blog, email and my YouTube channel.) Hours. Other had a much easier time, for me it was enough just keeping my head above water.<br />
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But still I liked Freeway in spite of all the frustrations. Maybe it was the satisfaction of having solved problems after fighting it for a spell of time. But the interface was pretty confusing to me, or not as clear or intuitive as one expects a program for a Mac to be.<br />
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One curious thing was that while the basic program was pretty limited, users (who could program) would write “actions,” which were free, to make Freeway do things that seemed pretty essential. And most of the support was from a gracious group of users who answered questions on a discussion board. They did most of the support and teaching and without any compensation. And, it turns out, many of them didn't use Freeway any more because it was too limited for them, or they just used parts of it and did their own programming for the majority of their work. The program didn't satisfy the iWeb refugees, because it was a bit too complicated, or the folks who were fairly advanced, because it was too limited in what it could do. Looking back these issues were a bit of a problem.<br />
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But still Freeway served me well.<br />
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Until in early July, when I was in Seattle. Freeway announced they were going out of business. As with iWeb, the program would still work, of course. But when Apple releases a new operating system this Fall, it seems likely that parts of the site will break and there will be no one to release patches and updates to keep it running.<br />
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My web site is my only advertising. It needs to work.<br />
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Looking around I tried a few programs and decided on Sparkle.<br />
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It’s fantastic—and so much easier than Freeway. Perhaps easier than iWeb was, but with many, many more features. I wonder if I don’t feel like a recently freed North Korean citizen who found himself in Seoul. They loved their country until they saw something else that was almost unimaginably better for them. That might be their biggest challenge.<br />
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Sparkle is just so much more intuitive and more than flexible enough for me. There are some limitations with it, like ecommerce is done through external pages, but I haven't found much more lacking than that. I mean, it wouldn't work for a bank web site but I think for 95% of web site builders out there this is the perfect solution. <br />
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Making the site is literally as simple as using Pages, or Word. Drag and drop, WYSIWYG, links are easy, adding video and audio files are a breeze. One can do incredible things with it without breaking a sweat.<br />
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What sold me on the program was that it wasn't dependent on templates, though they have several free templates available. I know what I wanted each page to look like and was able to do it without having to contort to fit into someone else's idea or design. And it wasn't built on piecing together blocks of elements to make a page. I wanted the freedom that Sparkle gave me.<br />
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Now my site is pretty simple by design. It’s a place for potential clients to understand what I do and why I do it. Most don’t really know much about repair and are a hesitant-to-uncertain how to approach the idea of having someone go at their family heirloom Bible. As a result I have a 60 page site where folks can learn all they want about binding, repair and conservation. <br />
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And that problem I had with my footer in Freeway that took hours? It took about ten minutes with Sparkle.<br />
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Though a simple site it still has a bit of bling! Sparkle makes is insanely simple to add animation to text and images, which I've done when I want to be sure folks see something on a page. Still, my site is pretty much text and pictures and videos. But I’ve seen sites done with Sparkle that would make Vegas proud. It can do so much more than how I use it. They have links to some amazing sites on Sparkle's homepage. Go look at them. [<a href="http://www.sparkle.cx/">www.sparkle.cx</a>]<br />
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You can also see lots of how-to videos on YouTube, including the best ones which are here:<br />
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But I doubt you'll need to see many of them if you've done anything in Pages or Word. I used one to make a sticky header, so that took probably five minutes to figure out how to do. And then one minute to actually do it. It's crazy, in a great way.<br />
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There were two things I had problems with during the couple of weeks it took to transfer it over. One of them was because I was using a Freeway mindset and way over complicated things. The other was something that was unfamiliar to me. I'd email the guy there and hear back very quickly with the simple answers to my questions. I think he's in Florence, probably going to all the sites where they filmed "A Room With A View." I would if I was there. Instead, though, he's sitting by his computer answering questions from users. Quickly and clearly.<br />
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Another reason I like it is that it's a freestanding program so I don't have to use their hosting service which is the case for many simple web programs. I want more control than that. And many of them seem template driven. Believe me I looked all over the place before jumping into Sparkle.<br />
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When I would go back to Freeway after not touching it for several months it would take me several minutes to figure out what to do again. That always kind of surprised me. Granted the documentation was great but just to change a photo I had to go through a process of “How do I do this again?” I'd pull out their documentation, read, remember what I did and then go do it. Not intuitive enough for an an iWeb refugee it seems.<br />
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Well, not any more. I highly recommend Sparkle. Very highly.<br />
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Thinking about our neighbor and the demise of needing to know something about photography to create a beautiful photograph, it must be hard to be a web developer these days if programs like this are around where you don't need to know how to program to make a great web site. We live in a world where bookbinders can make pretty much make any web site they can imagine without any real help, and without any knowledge of coding or other technical issues. Image what someone from a less Luddite-friendly field could do! Progress for us. Not so much fun for developers. But perhaps their field has shrunk and morphed into complicated sites, which might be a good thing for them. More interesting and probably better-paying.<br />
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But for me, it’s amazing to have programs like Sparkle that make things so simple and easy. I’d probably like it even more if I was more aware of all the work and knowledge it was freeing me from having to learn.<br />
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To learn more: <a href="http://www.sparkle.cx/">www.sparkle.cx</a><br />
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A follow up post is here:<br />
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<a href="http://singleflexible.blogspot.com/2016/09/web-hosting-comparisons-or-stop.html">http://singleflexible.blogspot.com/2016/09/web-hosting-comparisons-or-stop.html</a><br />
<br />Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-88257036330624564542016-07-25T06:00:00.000-07:002016-07-25T06:00:00.397-07:00MonumentsMany months ago I got a phone call from a gentleman who wanted to talk about having some boxes made for some photographs he had. His name is David Taylor and he’s a photography professor at the University of Arizona School of Art.<br />
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If only it was a simple as that, but it was much more, and much more interesting.<br />
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It turns out he had photographed all the border monuments along the US—Mexican border. It is a stunning project. Absolutely stunning. The scope, the beauty of the photographs, what they represent. All of it. It was a privilege to be part of it.<br />
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There are, I think, 276 monuments. They needed four boxes and one lid. He was making a wooden box to hold the four boxes, I was making the lid for the set.<br />
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But he didn’t want the telltale signs of boxes, especially the paper wrappers most of us use on boxes to increase their strength. For the smaller boxes that wasn’t an issue but for the lid it was a problem. This lid was pretty huge:<br />
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To get some stability while covering I tried all kinds of things including getting out my pneumatic brad nailer. But the nails, even the size of brads, expanded the binder’s board and were visible. In the end I used non-permanent tape and augmented it with strategically placed weights. The walls were glued on top of the top of the lid, if that makes sense. It would have been easier to put the walls on the side of the lid but the top wouldn’t have been as clean.</div>
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<br />Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-16942411698697694642016-07-18T06:00:00.000-07:002016-07-18T06:00:09.279-07:00years ending in 6 have been good to me... Part IIn the summer of 1986, I uprooted my life and moved to Boston, just for a year. At the time I was a high school social studies teacher and there were no jobs in Western Washington. I decided to take a year off, do something else, and then come back and get back into teaching.<br />
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I was hired in an archives. It turned out I really liked the work, so I stayed. I did a variety of things: copied glass plate negatives, rehoused some artifact collections, organized stuff, checked on some historic houses. It was a great job.<br />
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A year or two in they asked me to fix books. I was shown a manual on book repair by Jane Greenfield and I followed her directions. I loved the work and hated the result. She taught repairing books to make them structurally sound, but these weren’t beautiful repairs.<br />
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In one sense they were perfectly good repairs. They made books usable again, books that had no value in the covers. Still, I hated doing those repairs. It felt like I was ruining the books unnecessarily. I think that part of my reaction was because the books were bound in leather, which filled me with dread and awe. I should add that the books I worked on were in much better shape than the one shown in this photo.<br />
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Looking at that book now, about 28 years after I worked on it, the repair is perfectly fine mechanically and the book throws up the right amount (that’s how much the spine of the book elevates when the book is opened). Greenfield was good and right in what she taught, obviously.<br />
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Still, doing work like this kept me awake at night. Seriously, it did.<br />
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I felt like this wasn’t really the level of work I wanted to do. But I had no idea what the level I wanted was, or even where it was.<br />
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I took at class at the Boston Center for Adult Education on bookbinding, but we made these books. It was, no doubt, a great class for what its intentions were, but my goal was something completely different.<br />
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I was disappointed because I wanted to learn to make a “real book.” I hadn’t gotten anywhere.<br />
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Next, I bought a bookbinding manual at Buddenbooks on Boylston Street, just across from the Pru. It was Bookbinding, Its Background and Technique by Edith Diehl. Turns out it is THE American bookbinding manual. I set out teach myself.<br />
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I’d been pretty good at making stuff in the basement of our house growing up. Learned a lot from my Dad, who could make and fix anything. As an aside his arms were about the size of my legs. One night, coming back from Bellingham, I got pulled over for having a broken tail light. The next day I bought a bulb and set out to remove the lens from the car. It wouldn’t budge. My dad came home and asked what I was doing. When I told him, he said, Let me try. He took the screwdriver and twisted and twisted harder and twisted harder until he broke the screwdriver. He broke the screwdriver. He looked at me, tossed what was left of it in his hand onto the ground, laughed, and went into the house. Try that sometime.<br />
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Anyway, Diehl, though probably unable to break a screwdriver, wrote a fantastic book. The first half is a history of binding. The second half is an instruction manual. A great one. But without any context, I got nowhere with it.<br />
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my self-teaching experiment, I called the Massachusetts Department of
Vocational Education and asked where to learn bookbinding. That’s when I first
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16911783621907246350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474425606131651134.post-72504220297881099072016-07-11T06:00:00.000-07:002016-07-11T06:00:03.434-07:00It's not the heat, it's the humidityI don’t intend to shock anyone but it’s been pretty hot around here these past few weeks. Including a day of record heat in June:<br />
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When we were redoing the barn to turn it into a workshop, one of the decisions was how to cool the space. We decided to spend the money on a mini-split system.<br />
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The other option was a unit that mounts in a wall. We have one in the side of the barn that works fantastically well, but it sounds like a plane engine when it’s running. One time when it was on I thought I saw someone in an orange vest waving his arms like he was guiding a plane into its parking slot.<br />
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I think mini-splits are common in Europe and becoming more of a thing over here. The advantage to them is that there are no air ducts to run through walls or around difficult spaces. They work by having a compressor outside and then two copper lines pass the cooled, or heated, freon (or whatever is used these day) to a unit that’s mounted inside the space.<br />
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They are great for older construction because of the small size of the copper lines, which are about 1 inch or so. For that reason they have been very popular in Europe, where they can have much older construction to deal with.<br />
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One other big advantage is that they are very quiet, which is good for general sanity but also for teaching. Some units only cool, ours heats as well for those five days a year when we need it.<br />
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Do you notice the tape in the photo? The downside to them is that the mechanics think of them as pretty much disposable, not worth working on. Part of ours has broken. There was the ability to move the air in certain directions but that broke after a few years. But the cooling works just fine so no worries. It’s been installed for about four years now. Maybe five? Whatever, it should have lasted longer than that. I get the sense that some cheap plastic part broke.<br />
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But we have been told when it breaks just buy another one, which makes me wonder what it would take to buy a reparable one. Hopefully the compressor is more reliable and when the time comes we’ll just need the inside unit.<br />
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Still, it’s been amazing. On the hottest of days it stays in the mid-70s, which frankly is a bit too cool. But the main thing is how quiet it is. Sure it shouldn’t break after only a few years, but perhaps that’s just the world we live in. A less sweaty world than before, and that’s good enough for me.<br />
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