I need to saw the spines off some books at work in order to feed the individual pages into a very fast scanner (with auto document feeder). These books are internal company documents bound together like a modern softcover book (ie. some kind of flexible glue holds the pages together, not thread or staples or fabric). For thinner books, I normally just use a utility knife and a ruler. But because of thickness and volume, I'm thinking about using my bandsaw. Has anyone ever tried? How about a table saw?

Table saw, rake tooth blade. Stay out of the adhesive on the bindingas it melts easily and will stick to your blade, almost impossible toget off.Robert

Which saw to use on a book ?

Oct 21, 2005 21 Replies

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mac davis 20 years ago

Damn.. I KNEW the cutter had a grisly name, but couldn't remember that it was "guillotine"...

Kinko's has them..

mac

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john 20 years ago

Talk to your print shop guy, they have HUGE gulletine cutters designed to cut hundreds of pages of paper at a time, will give you a very nice, clean smooth cut. If you don't have a printshop inhouse, any local printer should be able to do this for you, probably for less than $1 a book

John

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