Spent 10 years gluing my text blocks with PVA before a binder in Portland told me to try EVA instead

Old me would drown the spine in PVA and wonder why the pages crinkled, but after a 5 minute chat with that guy at the Oregon Bookbinding Guild meetup last spring I switched to EVA and my books lay flat now, has anyone else had a glue epiphany that late into the hobby?

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lewis.diana9d ago

Can't believe you went ten whole years using the wrong glue without anyone telling you sooner.

evan1519d ago

Dude that's brutal but also kind of hilarious. I did something similar with wood glue on furniture for like six years because I grabbed the wrong bottle from my dad's old tool box. Nobody said a word until a whole chair fell apart during Thanksgiving dinner. My aunt just looked at me and said "that's not the right glue." Real helpful timing.