Re: [GBW] endsheets

[Leslie Couture <blusterer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Kenneth!

That is what I need to do.  I was getting methods mixed up and ended up making things too complicated for myself.  I will ask my teacher to show me.  I should have waited to ask, but was too impatient.   I do like to hear other's experiences and insights.

I will keep the other comments in regards to removing the endsheets - in the situations where I do not need to save the coverboards.  I still have a problem with that (removing the paper carefully) and will just have to be more persistant and collect more tools.  I know that I don't have everything yet.

Thanks to everyone who answered, you have all had something helpful to add.

One last thing, does anyone else have any opinions about making copies of endsheets?

Leslie

kenmarks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I too have found it difficult recasing a text in the original cover with stuck down pastedowns. I usually remove the old mull and clean and reline the spine with super or whatever. I then lift up about 1" under the end sheet from the gutter side, take a sekishu strip about 3/4" wide (I usually cut strips 1 1/2" wide on my cutting board and then water tear down the middle of the strip). The cut edge I put onto the lifted paste down and then reattach the fly sheet to the other half of the new JP hinge. I sand the boards to smooth them down and accommodate the new mull and JP, reinforce the spine cover from inside, and them recase.

This is a technique I developed while working in the preservation department of a research library. It saves what is left of the original cover, reinforces the torn end sheet and maintains as much of the original material as I can while internally strengthening the joints.

If this process sounds interesting to you, I would be willing to talk with you on the telephone to go into more detail and to discuss the specific book you are working on. When a client calls and wants to know how much it will cost, I usually ask them for the title, publisher and date, HB, cloth, paper, leather etc. It would help having more information to really know which route is best.

Kenneth Marks
Marks' Marks Book Repair Services
P. O. Box 665
Apex, NC 27502
(919) 387-0824


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