Simple Leather Book Binding using power tools! BSG Edition.

Step 7 More leather...

Ok, now to stick the leather to the face of the book

Picture 1 - Fill the gaps between the spine cardboard and the cover cardboard with some wood glue, then carefull push the leather into this gap, i used a half circle of card to do this. Ensure you check either end of your book, as the glue tends to spurt out.

Picture 2 - With the clamps holding the cover in place, cover half of the side with wood glue, spread it all out using your finger, and carefully place the leather down ontop, using your non gluey fingers push the leather outwards to get a nice flat fit. Remove the clamps, and glue down the section where the clamps were. Repeat for the other side. Ensure you now use scraps of cards whenever clamping ontop of the leather.

Picture 3 - here we see the leather glued in place, you can choose to let it dry or you can battle on, it doesn't make any difference.

Comments

[diy_bloke]

I found that in order to glue leather, starch is actually a much better product than wood glue. Just whip up some starch ('wall paper glue') like you would do for heavy wallpaper. Apply lavishly on the leather and then put th eleather on yr book