New & Second Hand Book Binding Equipment UK, European & Other
Well known throughout the trade for his restoration work on modern and antique printing and bookbinding equipment.
Steve Giddins Engineering & Book-Binding Machinery Ltd Units 5-7 Cotswold Business Park.Range Road.Witney.Oxfordshire.OX8 5YB Tel: 01993 776812 Fax: 01993 779109
Colebrook Evans & McKenzie (ring and ask to be put on bookbinding and letter press mailing list)
Quad Machinery (Mostly large machinery, but check on site for miscellaneous equipment)
Grafitech Plc (Mostly large machinery, but join mailing list as some smaller bindery equipment to be found)
J.Hewit & Sons Ltd UK (John Pursey, Hewits rep is worth talking to) http://www.hewit.com/basement.htm
Russels UK http://www.russels.com/bookbinding.htm
Designer Bookbinders News Letter Look in Classified Adds email:DBNLeditor@designerbookbinders.org.uk
Schmedt-Hamburg Germany http://www.schmedt-hamburg.de/en/secondhand/secondhand.php
Sumbel (Germany) Now that Swift have gone out of business this company makes the most affordable whole surface, cold gluing machines.
Book Fittings, clasps etc. Very little to be found on this subject, please let me know if you have other links.
Buchbinderei Müller (Germany) For period book fittings http://www.mueller-buch.de/klein/start.htm
Makers of Bookclasps and Book Fittings (USA)
Ebook on construction of sterling silver book clasps http://edenworkshops/tutorial1.htm
MC2 offers a premium selection of Chicago screws in a range of different sizes, colors, and materials. A Chicago screw post is a binding screw also known as a “Chicago screw”. (Known in the UK as Binding posts.)
Brass finishing tools Many of the Bookbinding equipment suppliers also sell new finishing tools but these are often sourced from either Fine Cut, P & S Engraving or J.T.Marshall
P & S Engraving (UK) http://www.pandsengraving.co.uk/
Fine Cut (UK) http://www.finecut.co.uk/bookbinding/
New & Second Hand Bookbinding Equipment USA based
Maher Bindery USA http://www.bindery.maher1.net/tools.html
Don Black USA http://www.donblack.ca/equipment.htm
American Graphic Arts USA http://www.agamachinery.com/bookbinding.htm
Arnold Grummer USA http://www.arnoldgrummer.com/index.cfm
Bindery in a Box USA
Bindery Tools USA
Dick Blick USA
Daniel Smith USA
Factory Express USA http://www.factory-express.com/
Jordan-Dehoff USA http://www.frontiernet.net/~efjordan/jdpresshome.html
Lehman Bindery USA http://www.lehmannbindery.com/frank.html
BookMakers USA http://www.bookmakerscatalog.com/
Make your own Standing Press USA http://www.philobiblon.com/nigropress/index.html
Hand Made Bindery Equipment USA http://www.temperproductions.com/
Thomas.J.Duffy USA http://www.thomasjduffy.com/bind.htm
Tim Moore USA http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/preservation/pages/news/moore2002.htm
Hollanders USA http://www.hollanders.com/supplies-kits/bookbinding/bookpresses.htm
American Printing Equipment USA http://www.americanprintingequipment.com/bookbindingequipment.htm
Smith Printing Company USA Yearbooks publisher, Book Printing & Binding Services. http://www.smithprinting.net/index.htm
An important online resource for bookbinders, The Bookbinder's Toolbox, the place to buy, sell or exchange tools & equipment. http://www.redmark.co.nz/tool.htm
Harcourt Bindery (USA) Second hand tools http://www.harcourtbindery.com/supplies/sup5.htm
Lehman Bindery (USA) Second hand tools. http://www.lehmannbindery.com/goldequip.html
All kinds of bookbinding equipment at a price. http://www.binderytools.com/productsmain.asp
Do not forget to put EBay on your list when looking for second hand equipment and materials, during the last year I have seen more second hand equipment on Ebay than anywhere else.
http://ebay.co.uk use search term "bookbinding" http://ebay.com use search term "bookbinding"
If you think I have missed anyone who should be listed here please mail me with their details mail
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