Bible Repair April 8-10, 2024

 

From: Chuck Darling

April 10, 2024

Re: Bible Repair

 

After 6pm service on Sunday,

April 7th, I stopped at a

Tobacco Shop, and gave

the youthful female clerk

an invite card from the church.

 

In return, she gave me a Bible

that someone had left in the

shop a while ago.

 

It's a very nice King James Version, with maps and thumb indexes...

 

However...

 

When I examined it that

Sunday Night, I found that

the former "owner" had

used the pages for

rolling paper.

 

I reglued the cover leaf pages

to cover the sloppy ballpoint pen

scrawl, and began to repair

the pages of Genesis.

 

Examining the book further,

I found many damaged pages.

 

I bought a sketch pad to use

as repair paper.

 

Placing paper underneath 

the gaping tears, I taped

the margin section, trimmed

the repair patch fairly closely,

and glued it down with white glue.

 

I then taped the margin edge

on the back side, and trimmed

the repaired page's edge.

 

I began to replace the text

manually.

 

Chuck

 

PS.

In high school, we formed a

Bible Club.

My friend Wayne Palmer

showed me a Bible he repaired

back then.

 

He said Umbrella Fabric

was ideal for repairing bindings.

 

Glue a strip of fabric across 

the unbound pages, leaving

a 2" flap.

 

When the binding is dry, glue

the flap to the back cover.

 

When that is dry, glue some

strong paper over the flap

hinge joint.

 

I have used his method,

and it works !

 

 

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