Bookbinding - Attempt One: Trimming and Spine

None of the local big box home improvement stores carry a draw knife, so when it came to trimming the paper to the boards, I ended up using a craft knife and then filing it to flush with the boards.

Afterwards I used some wheat paste and bookbinding super cloth to reenforce the spine of the book.  I pasted the cloth over the outside of the boards as per one of the examples in J.A. Szirmai's book, The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding.

The end bands will be done after the spine has dried.

Pages trimmed to the book.

Pasting down the cloth to reenforce the spine.