Production for On Being a California Poet -- Part 5
The next steps are 1) attaching the outside fill card which is an offset for the vellum spine and 2) trimming the textblock to the finished size.
Here Craig is attaching the outside fill cards which is accurately tipped into position using a strip of binders board as a jig.
Here is a detail of the position fill card.
Next the book blocks are trimmed to size on the head, foredge and tail sides.
The book is carefully positioned into the guillotine cutter.
Turning down the clamp on the guillotine cutter.
Pulling the knife handle on the guillotine to cut the book edge.
The guillotine knife coming down to cut the book edge. This knife is razor sharp.
A nice neat stack of trimmed book blocks, ready for covering.
Josie the shop dog keeps watch over operations.
For a detailed description of the type of binding used for On Being a California Poet, go to the BookLab BookNote, Three Bookbindings, Part 4, Sewn Boards Binding and scroll down to the heading Limited Edition Binding.
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