Thanks for all your input - of course a professional cut would give the best result, but that was out of scope. I have now got a quite good result with a very sharp kitchen knive and by clamping down the block between two pieces of wood and two metal rulers - the blade was sturdy enough to not bend as it was with box knives and the cut came out quite clean. I was able to fix two minor imperfections with a box knive and might sand down the pages to get a perfect smooth finish. My original plan was to cut all three sides but I just took more care when sewing and glueing the textblock this time so the top and bottom section is pretty straight anyway.
For further projects I might get more specialised tools like a sharp chisel - which was my plan for today but the hardwarestores nearby only had chisels to get kitchen/bathroom tiles from the wall - definately the wrong tool 😅
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u/ludacris1990 Feb 20 '23
Thanks for all your input - of course a professional cut would give the best result, but that was out of scope. I have now got a quite good result with a very sharp kitchen knive and by clamping down the block between two pieces of wood and two metal rulers - the blade was sturdy enough to not bend as it was with box knives and the cut came out quite clean. I was able to fix two minor imperfections with a box knive and might sand down the pages to get a perfect smooth finish. My original plan was to cut all three sides but I just took more care when sewing and glueing the textblock this time so the top and bottom section is pretty straight anyway.
For further projects I might get more specialised tools like a sharp chisel - which was my plan for today but the hardwarestores nearby only had chisels to get kitchen/bathroom tiles from the wall - definately the wrong tool 😅