WIP Call me by your name
Part V double fan binding, trimming and rounding
Since I already wrote about the double fan binding in another post I’ll put the rounding first. Usually I do the double fan already in a rounded shape. So there is trimming the fore edge first, double fan binding the book in the rounded shape and when dry trimming head and tail. Here I did the binding with a square back and only later decided to round. So I let it dry until the glue was good to touch without having it stick to my finger, trimmed the front ad I started rounding.
The rounding is just as straight forward as usually. just wack the spine with a hammer into shape. Admittedly it would have been easier if I had not already put mull on it, but even like that I got a gentle curve and that’s actually all I wanted.
I put the book between boards, weighed it down and glued the spine up once more (if I’d done it in a more sensible order this would be the point when I reeinforce the binding with mull) and let it dry completely. As I said, I wrote about the binding before. But perhaps it doesn’t hurt to repeat that this is one of the few times when a material, here the mull I use to strengthen the connection, is used with the stronger/more threads not parllel to the spine but across the grain/spine direction. (I hope this makes sense) the idea is to give the connection more support, also in this case now there are three threads that would need to tear to loosen the binding instead of just one.