Re: [BKARTS] Portable bookbinding equipment - request for advice

[Jackie Poutasse <jackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gina,

I have some downloadable plans for a very simple bookpress you can make out 
of MDF on my site at www.tjbookarts.com .
It can be turned on it's side to for working on a book spine. You could make 
one and buy a set of backing boards from Talas for backing 
http://apps.webcreate.com/ecom/catalog/product_specific.cfm?ClientID=15&ProductID=23942
Your brass edge boards could be used with it no problem.
It could also be used for trimming. In the book Simplified Bookbinding by 
Henry Gross (pg. 121-127) he shows how you can use a simple book press with 
a brass edge and a sharpened chisel to trim book edges. It's a little 
fiddley though as you need to make sure the chisel is sharpened just right.

Hope this helps.

Jackie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gina wischmeyer" <ginawisch@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <BOOK_ARTS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 2:12 PM
Subject: [BKARTS] Portable bookbinding equipment - request for advice


Dear list members --

As a student of bookbinding, I have learned a lot from reading the list. 
Thanks to all of you who so freely share your knowledge and expertise.  So 
I'm hoping you can help me out with some product information.

I will be spending a month this summer in northern Michigan.  I would love 
to be able to do some bookbinding while I'm there, so  I was looking on the 
web for some portable equipment to take with me.  I found the "Bindery in a 
Box", the Jordan-Dehoff Student Press and the Timothy Moore Compact Lying 
Press with Tub and Plow.  Does anyone have any experience with any of these 
products, or information about others that I should consider?  I have 
brass-edged boards and could use some large lake stones to make do for a 
book press, but I'd like something for rounding and backing.  Also, I've 
never used a plow, but I've heard that it's difficult to get satisfactory 
results...?

Any advice on these questions would really be appreciated!

Many thanks!

gina wischmeyer


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