What I do is cut the corners towards you on the bending insert backing board so you can see the corners of the comic top and bottom meet as you press the spine....my perfection❤ ..peace out Michael
Would like to see a video where you align a book that has off center staples, for some reason these give me fits! Thanks for sharing all the great info.
Thanks dude. I saw vids where people do it in the press and not with the tack. I feel like your way is much better for the staples. Keep up the good work and keep making vids for us noob pressers. Much love from CanadaLand
Thanks! Yes, the original video and guide from Myke shows him using the press to remake the spine. That may be a little easier with a clamshell t-shirt press but no so much with my dry mount. I have seen others comment that they also use the tacking iron. So I am not alone in this method. It is definitely hard to get perfect and the improvement should be weighed against possible damage to the book.
I imagine a work table with a long narrow clamp along its left side. Flip the book over on its cover, line the edges up as you did manually near the end of this tutorial, clamp said edges down and then 'rolling pin' out the spine. With the aligned edges straightened and clamped, the spine should then correct itself with damping and ironing. Here's my question: are boards then required for the ironing? If so, they could be narrower so as not to interfere with the clamp. The clamp could be made of dense grippy foam that will hold but not crease the paper. Before clamping, you would flatten the spine as you did here.
@@epicomicologycomics awesome cant wait! I do have one question if you dont mind though! Im looking to buy a press but im kind of on a tight budget, what would you recommend?
@@kyledamato3399 You are looking at about $150-200 for an entry level press. Check out this one (it's pretty popular): www.amazon.com/dp/B07MRFF1FL/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_SCKYEFYV3F4YETTXNVEY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Talk about coincidence- I just had the same issue with tarzan 17! Sorted mine out using heat press to remove the old spine and again to create the new spine - good result too
Hey, hoping you see this, not relevant to this video but i wanted to put it on your most recent video. I must have had a TINNNY fragment of debris that i wound up pressing into my cardstock cover so now there is a very very very tiny dent im trying a hot shot method with steam but its not working , do you have any recommendations?
Is there any possibilty of removing light scratches from a book? Googling returned nothing for me. Have a couple books that are mostly black front/back and noticed some scratches from poor bagging upon inspection. Mainly 90's books with the super gloss.
Ugh! I know exactly what you are talking about! Those black back covers were brutal, especially for the ASM 298-301 run. Scratches/scuffs are unfortunately permanent. Sometime wiping with the swifter pad can mitigate them though. Sorry I didn't have better news for you!
@@epicomicologycomics Got ya. Ill have to try that out. In your opinion, how bad does that get a ding in the grading dept all else being great? Not major or color breaking to really degrade from the look. Just if you hit them in the light just right you see them.
If you are just starting out, this is the paper I use: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08M44G72B/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Others usually mover to bulk, but this stuff works great. Just cut the sheets in half using and exacto knife and straight edge.
All 'improvements' that degrade in time chests the customer..., if you had a book that you processed This way it's GOING TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE YOU SEND IT FOR GRADING AND ITS NOT GOING TO SPEND ANY TIME OUT OF A TIGHT MYLAR/BOARD WRAP...IT LITERALLY MIGHT BE IN A PRESS UNTIL ITS SENT IN FOR GRADING SUCH THAT IT ONLY WILL BE UNPRESSED FOR THE few minutes TIME ITS GRADED
Hello. Hmm. My understanding of 'spine roll' seems different from this. I've heard this condition you feature in your video referred to as 'Miswrap'. This is important because, apparently a miswrap is a 'printing error', which is apparently overlooked by CGC. Meaning that here you are trying to 'correct' something that wouldn't be graded against by them, and in the process are putting an entirely new crease in your book in order to alter it to look like it was missing its printing error. I do not see how putting new damage into a book would increase its value at all.
As he mentioned in the beginning of the video, a miswrap is a totally different condition. The books he shows here literally have the spines rolled out of position, made obvious by the staples being in the wrong orientation and the page leafs being misaligned. In a miswrap the spine is not rolled, thus the staples will be in the correct orientation and the page leafs will be aligned. They are two independent conditions - a book could have either one or both conditions.
@@ChienandKun also it's not an entirely new crease. It's the one that was there to begin with, when the book was made. The one that rolled around to the front.
