My sewing frame snapped mid-project on a 400 page restoration

I was working on an old 1920s novel last Saturday, about 60% through resewing the sections, and my homemade sewing frame just gave out. The crossbar split right down the middle, sending the whole setup crashing to the floor. I had to pick up all the loose signatures and figure out what to do next. Ended up clamping the frame back together with some wood glue and a couple of C-clamps, but it held for maybe another 20 minutes before it cracked again. Anybody else had a frame fail on them like this, or am I just pushing my luck with a cheap build?

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alice_palmer2028d ago

and the crossbar just split on a 400 page restoration? man that is a total nightmare, i would have been so mad picking up all those signatures off the floor.

matthewkim28d ago

400 pages scattered on the floor changed my mind about cheap glue.

abbyg1428d ago

Wait, didn't your buddy @alice_palmer20 have the same thing happen to her last year? I swear my friend Sarah told me her crossbar snapped right in the middle of a flip and she had signatures all over her dining room floor for a week.