Workshops/Bookbinding

What

I(Lester) seem to have volunteered to run an "intro to bookbinding" class once I lend my book-press to the Space. I could talk a bit about repair and show a few examples if people would like - at the end, after everyone's done their scratchbuild. Due to my limited energy, the large requirements for clean space, and having only one press I would not like to attempt to teach more than six people.

Mike (earthshine) and Adrian (artag) have expressed interest in repairs, so I will discuss them at the end, but I think it might be difficult to do a "practical" on this.

When

This will take a long afternoon and you will leave with a small notebook.

(Lester has attempted to make Dakkar's table reflect his understanding of people's preferences but may be wrong, apologies if this is the case)

person	Sat Mar 19	Sun Mar 20	Sun Mar 27	Sat Apr 16	Sun Apr 17	Sat Apr 23	Sun Apr 24							Easter Bank Hols	Easter Bank Hols
Lester	y	yy	yy	y	yy	y	yy
Sam Cook				yy	yy	yy	yy
Katie Sutton	yy		yy	yy		yy	yy
dakkar			y	yy	yy	yy	yy
MattP			y	y	y	y	y
FrankC				y	y	y	y

( y = can make it ; yy = preferred )

Alternative presentation of the same information: numbers in brackets are reference who has expressed a preference for a particular day, thus:

(1) - Sam Cook has expressed preference. (2) - Katie Sutton's preferences (3) - Dakkar's preferences

Lester's preferred days are

• Sunday 20th March
• Sunday 27th March (2)
• Sunday 17th April (1) (3)
• Sunday 24th April (1) (2) (3)

Other possible days include

• Saturday 19th March (2)
• Saturday 16th April (1) (2) (3)
• Saturday 23rd April (1) (2) (3)

Please annotate with preference/availability. Thanks.

Any dates: Mark Stanhope can make any dates.

Cost

I will need about £5 for materials to make sure I can get a consistent supply of good quality ones that will be easy to work with. It is possible to make books much more cheaply, but hard for me to run a class where everyone struggles with buckling boards, recalcitrant thread and glue-permeated endpapers! More cost details to follow.

Level of preparedness

• Lester has lugged the bookpress to the space. (It is not THAT heavy but is quite unwieldy, please take care when moving)

• Lester still needs to make pinch boards and find materials.