Folded Corner?

[Hero Restoration]

Gheese, talk about non constructive discourse. The guy asks a serious question, and all he gets is snark?

 

No wonder the resto room is a ghost town.

 

 

I'm sure everyone at some point has wondered about unfolding, a folded corner. And unless you have unfolded several you may not know how they will react until it is too late.

 

Typically if a corner is heavily creased like a weak hinge, leave it alone unless you want a souvenir piece to carry around.

 

Coverstock can often withstand being unfolded more then interior pages, because interior pages are made of chraapy newsprint.

 

Thin SA covers being much more pissy then thicker GA.

 

All depends on the age of the fold, and the condition of the book.

 

Even with an older, even brittle book you can do things to the paper that would help get the fold back over without the piece breaking offf (all the time).

 

 

Well, what may be common knowledge to you and I, may not be to most everyone reading.

 

 

So in the interest of people not losing all the corners off their comics let's at least touch on what one of those things may be.

 

Introducing moisture to the hinge line before unfolding it is the best way to allow the fold to unfold without stressing the crease further. Be it through taking a damp q tip,or even your lighlty damp finger and running it along the hinge line. Then once the crease is slightly damp it allows for the paper to be unfolded and dried flat.

 

Being careful of course to not get the paper too wet, or being too aggressive when unfolding the corner. Or how you may blot the area as it dries.

 

This is of course just a basic cliff note version of one way to skin a cat. But might allow for a few less corners being lost.

 

 

Great description, I would like to add that how you are handling the paper as you unfold it makes a difference too. An easy handy way would be to use a business card and slip it under the fold and twisting the card as the paper lifts to follow it as it unfolds.