One of the few benefits of aging eyes is that you get to wear fancy headset magnifiers while working, like Donegan’s OptiSIGHT in violet!
Tool Demonstration, Roundtable Discussion, and Pot-luck Meal. CBBAG Bindery, Toronto.
Monday, October 26, 2015 6-8pm.
CBBAG Bindery, Suite 207, 80 Ward St., Toronto
This is a free event open to the public, but you must RSVP: cabbage.gta AT gmail DOT com
I will demonstrate the making of a delrin folder using simple hand tools: a hacksaw, a file, a scraper, and micron-graded sanding sponges. Attendees should bring their favorite tool and be prepared to discuss it. Also bring a tool that doesn’t work or you would like to alter, we can brain storm options as a group. The evening will conclude with a pot luck meal, I’ve already heard rumors of chili. Yum!
Upcoming Lecture: October 21, University of Toronto, CA
Pulled to Pieces: Life as an Independent Book Conservator
October 21, 2015. 4:15 pm.
Faculty of Information, ischool, 140 St. George St., Rm 728
University of Toronto, Canada.
In this fast paced illustrated lecture, Jeff Peachey will discuss the variety of book related activities he is engaged in as a New York City based independent book conservator. This includes pretending to be an actor playing a bookbinder in a Samsung Galaxy Note TV advertisement, inventing the Peachey Board Slotting Machine, manufacturing leather paring knives and other hand-tools for the bookbinders, teaching, blogging, conducting research, and providing book conservation treatments for individuals and institutions.
Peachey is Professional Associate in the American Institute for Conservation, has served as Chair of the Conservators In Private Practice, was recently awarded a fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center (Italy) and is currently the Patricia Fleming Visiting Fellow in Bibliography and Book History at the University of Toronto. His most recent publication is “Beating, Rolling and Pressing: The Compression of Signatures in Bookbinding Prior to Sewing” in Suave Mechanicals: Essays in the History of Bookbinding, The Legacy Press, 2013. Currently he is researching the progressive mechanization of book structures in the early nineteenth century.
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