Weil mich ein anderer, ein amerikanischer Buchbinder davon überzeugt hat, mehr Bücher nach seinem (wiederbelebten) Konzept des vorrevolutionären Buchbindens zu machen, folgt der Rest ihm zuliebe in (meinem) Englisch:
Jeff, don't ask me today when I heard first Emerson, Lake & Palmer's song „Ooooh, what a lucky man he was”. Believe me I was a lucky man last sunday afternoon visiting Bookbinde'rs fair in St. Niklaas near Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium. In the darkest corner near british, french, german, belgian and dutch bookbinding stuff suppliers I found my long time desire „press & plough”: used, some years old, in quite good condition, made of hard wood. After carefully treating with some PTFE-spray this little „maschinery” is on the way to become my favourite tool. The first tests with an old telephon book are promisingly. 18th century bookbinding may come now faster.