Practical bookbinding : a text-book intended for those who take up the art of bookbinding, and designed to give sufficient help to enable handy persons to bind their books and periodicals . simply a piece of string orcord stretched across from side to side of a windowframe or some out-of-the-way corner in the line will be found useful for hanging up othermaterials to dry. Uncut Books.—Books that are to be left as uncut, , the edges are not cut away with theplough as described in Chapter VI, may, while theend papers are drying, be trimmed to bring theleaves to some degree of regul
Practical bookbinding : a text-book intended for those who take up the art of bookbinding, and designed to give sufficient help to enable handy persons to bind their books and periodicals . simply a piece of string orcord stretched across from side to side of a windowframe or some out-of-the-way corner in the line will be found useful for hanging up othermaterials to dry. Uncut Books.—Books that are to be left as uncut, , the edges are not cut away with theplough as described in Chapter VI, may, while theend papers are drying, be trimmed to bring theleaves to some degree of regularity. This may bedone with a sharp knife and the steel straight-edge,and is technically called trimming. PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 33 Trimming.—After collating, proceed in the followingmanner. Knock up the sections one at a time athead and back, then set the wing compasses (Fig. 5,C) to the width from back to fore-edge. As it is onlynecessary to remove the extreme ragged edges, whichmay otherwise become torn or dirty, measurementsare taken which will leave the sections as wide aspossible. A cutting board will be required. This maybe made of wood, or millboard, the important factor. Fig. 20. being a flat surface to cut upon. The requisitewidth having been marked with the compasses, bothat the top and the bottom of the first section, thissection is placed in position on the cutting board,and two drawing-pins are fixed into the board in such aposition that the back of the section may butt againstthem. The compass marks on the section may thenbe continued on to the cutting board, both at head 3 34 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. and tail of the section, and the knife is drawn alongthe edge of the section when it is being cut. Thisline on the board, and the drawing-pins, will serve asa guide for cutting the other sections to the samewidth. Fig. 20 illustrates this method. A verysharp knife is required, and should be held againstthe straight-edge, at a somewhat natter angle thanis shown in
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