I have received a fun, very nice Bible from a client this past week. It feels good to hold and to page through. I can’t to see how this is going to turn out.
I have started to take this Bible apart by removing the cover and the end page. I removed all of the old material and glue from the spine to prep this Bible for the next step.
After removing the glue, it turns out that this Bible is a glued back Bible from the manufacturer. I do like the Bibles better with sewn signatures due to helping the Bible stay together longer, but we can work with this. So once we clean the spine of the old material, it looks like this:
Now this next part may look scary, but this is the process to make a glued back binding stronger and last longer. We turn this into what is called a perfect binding. We mark out the lines and use a saw to cut grooves into the spine. We then apply a fresh layer of glue into the grooves and over the spine. Then we take thread and weave in and around the grooves and apply another fresh layer of glue over the whole spine, allowing the thread to soak up and absorb the glue.
You can see that the grooves are very deep and how the thread will interweave through these grooves. This will create a longer lasting and more durable glued back spine Bible.
Next step, we let the glue completely dry and then we can proceed with building the spine back up. This will be the part where we add new ribbons, book cloth and a Oxford Hollow. Stayed tuned for the next phase of this Bible repair/rebind!
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Thank you!
Chad
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