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Old book I rebinding split at the spine a week after I finished it
I used wheat paste for a 1924 novel and it held fine for 6 days, then the spine just cracked open on my shelf in Austin. Turns out the old boards were too dry for paste, I should have used a flexible PVA mix instead. Anyone else run into dried-out boards wrecking a rebind weeks later?
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tarar2717d ago
Gah, that is brutal! I had the exact same thing happen with a 1930s poetry anthology, it looked perfect for like a week and a half, then just went crack on my shelf one humid afternoon. So annoying. I switched to a PVA and methyl cellulose blend for anything with boards that feel really chalky or dry now, it gives them a little more give. Paste is just too stiff for old paper sometimes, it doesn't bend with the seasons.
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