I don't know what Festool's are going for these days, but this is the best orbital sander I've used and have been very happy with the performance. Quiet-ish, doesn't vibrate my hand off, and speed selection is easy. Fits my shop vac hose.
If you can afford festool, and you're worried about your lungs, get a positive air pressure respirator.I'm very tempted to get a festool orbital with the vac
Both this and the festool are excellent. Regardless of sander, us the 3M Xtract 2 (cubitron) sandpaper. It's rediculously better than anything elseI don't know what Festool's are going for these days, but this is the best orbital sander I've used and have been very happy with the performance. Quiet-ish, doesn't vibrate my hand off, and speed selection is easy. Fits my shop vac hose.
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Based on what I've seen over the years, it's probably fixable. There's a lot of book repair / restoration videos on YouTube. You should take a look at the techniques and see if you are comfortable with it. Look up book re-binding or book restoration.Not directly woodworking, but I've got a question. Have a (brand new and expensive) book that I acquired a few months back. Finally got around to reading it and the binding is shot to hell. As in none of the pages will stick. They're attached to each other in clumps, but not to the overarching binding.
Is this sort of thing salvageable with at-home methods? Any particular special kind of glue that needs to be used? I feel like if I try to do it myself with no insight first it'll just fall apart.
Wouldn't care except it's a $40 collector's item that I was planning to resell at some point. Not expecting it to be resellable ever but it would be cool to at least get it to the point where it's respectable enough to read.
From the looks of things, and considering it was brand new, I suspect it got left in some sort of over-hot storage at some point that just disintegrated the glue. That's a wild guess though.
It's pretty similar to epoxy and the way you work with it, but the result is very flexible and not hardened.
Are you referring to text block sag or the actual pages within the text block separating? Sag can be natural if the book is thick and heavy and may not even devalue the book that much. Most of the sellers/buyers that I have experience with understand it is the nature of gravity and heavy books, storing them upright. But it is fixable. If it is an “expensive” book as you say, I’d look in to hiring out instead of doing it myself.Not directly woodworking, but I've got a question. Have a (brand new and expensive) book that I acquired a few months back. Finally got around to reading it and the binding is shot to hell. As in none of the pages will stick. They're attached to each other in clumps, but not to the overarching binding.
Is this sort of thing salvageable with at-home methods? Any particular special kind of glue that needs to be used? I feel like if I try to do it myself with no insight first it'll just fall apart.
Wouldn't care except it's a $40 collector's item that I was planning to resell at some point. Not expecting it to be resellable ever but it would be cool to at least get it to the point where it's respectable enough to read.
From the looks of things, and considering it was brand new, I suspect it got left in some sort of over-hot storage at some point that just disintegrated the glue. That's a wild guess though.
Turned out great! Thank you for the pictures of the finished workIt's all done.
I dyed the wood, did 20 coats of Tru oil. Poly on the head to bury the logo. Definitely a labor of love with this one. It is far from perfect. View attachment 560627View attachment 560628View attachment 560629
Don’t remember who originally posted it ( C Captain Suave maybe?), but the Japanese Joinery book came in while we were out of town for Christmas.
It is very nice. Guy seems to have put some good work in to it. He sent an email a week or two ago about how customs rejected 50% of his shipments because it was 1mm over dimensions. So he had to receive them all back and repackage them. Sounds crazy. Guess mine wasn’t in the bad batch but also don’t remember ever getting a tracking number to begin with.
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C Captain Suave , Intrinsic : Would one of you please post a link? Looks like this is something I might like for my libraryYup, just received mine and was about to post pictures. Book is gorgeous. I'm going to be making a bed for my son this spring and I'm going to try to include a few of these joints.
C Captain Suave , Intrinsic : Would one of you please post a link? Looks like this is something I might like for my library