Resto / Pressing Successes

[Mio]

Aside from the distain some people have for restoration & pressing, sometimes beater books need to be patched up so they don't fall to bits. Does anyone have any success stories? I've seen a few tattered rags turn into nice-looking, readable gems... But only 2-3.

 

Also, anyone have some real winners come out of pressing? I don't mean a 9.4 turned into a 9.6. I bought this book as an eBay FN/VF - which was accurate. There was a light bend and some stain-like junk on the back cover... it all went away to give me the best eBay find I ever had.

 

 

 

[faster friends]

This book was in very bad shape and was repaired to a condition safe to handle.

 

[Mio]

I remember seeing that one. That's a great example of rescuing a delapidated book :thumbsup:

[comicparadox]

dilapidate

Origin:

1560–70; < ML dīlapidātus, ptp. of dīlapidāre to squander (cf. dīlapidātiō disrepair), L: to pelt with stones; see di- 2 , lapidate

 

Maybe someone had pelted that book with stones!!

[joeypost]

Looks like Kenny's work.

[Dick Pontoon]

Sure ain't MasterCPU's.

[CAP Freak]

Sure ain't MasterCPU's.

Yeah, Instead of rice paper we'd have seen a piece of duck tape.

[Transplant]

Looks like Kenny's work.

It is Kenny's work. This is the pure form of conservation on display. No color touch needed. The pieces were added just to make it safe to handle.

[DiceX]

Sure ain't MasterCPU's.

Yeah, Instead of rice paper we'd have seen a piece of duck tape.

 

Great. Now you've given him another idea.

 

 

[slym2none]

Sure ain't MasterCPU's.

Yeah, Instead of rice paper we'd have seen a piece of duck tape.

 

Great. Now you've given him another idea.

 

Dice...

 

 

 

 

 

-slym

[RockMyAmadeus]

"duct" is a hard word to learn.....

 

 

[CAP Freak]

Sure ain't MasterCPU's.

Yeah, Instead of rice paper we'd have seen a piece of duck tape.

 

Great. Now you've given him another idea.

 

Dice...

 

 

 

 

 

-slym

No one is trolling so shut up.

 

[slym2none]

"Troll" has many meanings, such as "an ugly little creature people avoid like it has the plague."

 

 

 

-slym

[MrBedrock]

Sure ain't MasterCPU's.

Yeah, Instead of rice paper we'd have seen a piece of duck tape.

 

Great. Now you've given him another idea.

 

Dice...

 

 

 

 

 

-slym

No one is trolling so shut up.

Irony or sarcasm?

[Mutant Manatee]

"duct" is a hard word to learn.....

 

 

 

Maybe he squeeks by on a technicality. There actually is a brand of duct tape called "Duck Tape".

 

[RockMyAmadeus]

I think I posted that same picture a couple weeks ago.

[RockMyAmadeus]

Sure ain't MasterCPU's.

Yeah, Instead of rice paper we'd have seen a piece of duck tape.

 

Great. Now you've given him another idea.

 

Dice...

 

 

 

 

 

-slym

No one is trolling so shut up.

 

Uh oh, slym...I think you angered it. You wouldn't like it when it's ANGRY!!!!!!!!

 

 

"RAAAAAWWWWWWRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!"

[Mutant Manatee]

I think I posted that same picture a couple weeks ago.

 

You did? I must have missed it.

 

Never mind then.

 

 

[CAP Freak]

Sure ain't MasterCPU's.

Yeah, Instead of rice paper we'd have seen a piece of duck tape.

 

Great. Now you've given him another idea.

 

Dice...

 

 

 

 

 

-slym

No one is trolling so shut up.

Irony or sarcasm?

Little from column A, little from Column B.

[Lebowski]

I think I posted that same picture a couple weeks ago.

 

In the "Things I need for a fun Saturday night" thread?