DOI issue:
The international Studio (October, 1907)
DOI article:King, Morris Lee: Practical bookbinding, 1
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28252#0483
Practical Bookbinding
the cuts being about one inch in depth and just
wide enough for the shanks of the fillets.
It has been customary to keep finishing tools on
shelves or in cases provided with a special space
for each tool. This is a very good method, but is
costly and takes up much space. After consider-
able thought and experiment I finally settled on the
following expedient: As the average tool is less
than 10 inches long, I took a box say 9 by 14
inches by 10 inches deep, open on one side. This
I filled with brown paper mailing tubes 1 inch in
diameter and 6 or 8 inches long, tightly packed.
Each tube holds one tool securely, preventing abra-
sion with its neighbors and presenting its face for
inspection.
A box, 9 by 14 inches, holds about 140 one-inch
tubes, consequently 140 tools. The entire expense
is one and one-half dollars. The usual racks for
the same number of tools cost many times that and
take up many times the space. This method is
also most useful when need arises to transport a
lot of tools for the summer or for demonstration in
another place, etc.
BOX FOR TOOLS
GOUGES AND STRAIGHT LINES
Mill boards : This is the technical name under
which the various kinds of “cardboard” and
“pasteboard” are known in the trade. There is a
great difference in quality. The ordinary domestic
board is not worth using for good work. The very
best quality of domestic board may be used from
time to time, but for really first-class work it is best
to use the best grade of English or French board.
Mill board is found in the market in bundles of
100 pounds, the number of sheets depending on the
thickness of same. The size of the board is about
the same (average 20 by 28 inches) in all cases, but
the thickness varies very much and is known by
numbers. These boards, both the domestic and the
foreign qualities, can be purchased at various
dealers in supplies of this nature in less than whole
bundles, so that it is advisable for the beginner to
get a few sheets each, say of numbers 63, 30 and 21.
As all boards should be lined before using, it is
advisable for the amateur to do this at one time
and line the whole stock in hand (if not too great a
quantity) in order that they may be ready, and that
this operation need not be done from time to time,
as it is just as easy to line a number as it is to line
one.
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the cuts being about one inch in depth and just
wide enough for the shanks of the fillets.
It has been customary to keep finishing tools on
shelves or in cases provided with a special space
for each tool. This is a very good method, but is
costly and takes up much space. After consider-
able thought and experiment I finally settled on the
following expedient: As the average tool is less
than 10 inches long, I took a box say 9 by 14
inches by 10 inches deep, open on one side. This
I filled with brown paper mailing tubes 1 inch in
diameter and 6 or 8 inches long, tightly packed.
Each tube holds one tool securely, preventing abra-
sion with its neighbors and presenting its face for
inspection.
A box, 9 by 14 inches, holds about 140 one-inch
tubes, consequently 140 tools. The entire expense
is one and one-half dollars. The usual racks for
the same number of tools cost many times that and
take up many times the space. This method is
also most useful when need arises to transport a
lot of tools for the summer or for demonstration in
another place, etc.
BOX FOR TOOLS
GOUGES AND STRAIGHT LINES
Mill boards : This is the technical name under
which the various kinds of “cardboard” and
“pasteboard” are known in the trade. There is a
great difference in quality. The ordinary domestic
board is not worth using for good work. The very
best quality of domestic board may be used from
time to time, but for really first-class work it is best
to use the best grade of English or French board.
Mill board is found in the market in bundles of
100 pounds, the number of sheets depending on the
thickness of same. The size of the board is about
the same (average 20 by 28 inches) in all cases, but
the thickness varies very much and is known by
numbers. These boards, both the domestic and the
foreign qualities, can be purchased at various
dealers in supplies of this nature in less than whole
bundles, so that it is advisable for the beginner to
get a few sheets each, say of numbers 63, 30 and 21.
As all boards should be lined before using, it is
advisable for the amateur to do this at one time
and line the whole stock in hand (if not too great a
quantity) in order that they may be ready, and that
this operation need not be done from time to time,
as it is just as easy to line a number as it is to line
one.
cxxix