I have a bunch of hobbies, and I am particularly pleased when they intersect or overlap.

This weekend’s project started with a visit to a good friend who has a large collection of magazines and books about radio and audio dating back over 100 years. One of the books on his shelf was a bound set of Radio Uge-Revue magazine from 1926, however, after 100 years and much use, the binding has disintegrated. So, I took the book home with an agreement that I would try to repair the book and, in return, he would not criticise my amateurish attempts…

This was the starting point. The leather spine of the book has become completely torn away from the leather strip on one cover. Structurally, the rest of the binding turned out to be in decent shape, so I spent a lot of time debating what to do.

The spine was nicely attached to the other cover, and the internal threads were in decent shape.

Both headbands were in pretty bad shape, as was the paper covering on the spine itself.

So, step one was to start dismantling the binding – but only as much as necessary…