Mending a Passenger Pigeon

 

Today I mended this beautiful old book

THE LAST PASSENGER (1956)

about passenger pigeons in Ohio

by James Ralph Johnson

 

This is my Mending Mentor

Captain Mastor:

 

As you may recall

our Mendery was shut down last year

(see posting from December 6, 2011).

However, since then of course

many books have been piling up

needing repairs. 

 

So I'm back in there to help. 

This book needed a spine repair:

 

First I removed the torn spine

Then I cut some headbands

which the original book lacked.

Incidentally, way back when 

we 'overbought' our headband

and ended up with this huge 

cheese-wheel of headband.

Fortunately, I saved it from 

being discarded as it's 

something any Mendery uses

everyday.

 

I weighted down the new spine

with these buckshot filled weights.

 

Here's how the new headband

blurrily looks.

Next I made the new spine. I could have 

gone with either green or gray booktape. 

I chose the gray.

(Once I memorably festooned a book

on American slavery in red white and blue

booktape, quite a patriotic sight.)

I glued down the old spine title.

And voila!

 The Passenger Pigeon returns to the flock!