long sought, often missed or wg. Exorbitant prices disdained, but now've found: I have a used older but well-functioning Beschneidhobel of hard wood, not cheap, but reasonably priced out bought at the Vienna Buchbinder Stephan Ortbauer
. (Click anywhere worthwhile in any event, strongly recommend a visit to the Flour Sack Books (click navigation links to "flour sack"). Ortbauer offers the bookbinder measuring real-old color paper of the 20s, 30s and 40s and the occasional antiquarian bookbinding material. A 
Because me another,
American Bookbinders believe has to do more books after his (revived) concept of pre-revolutionary book binding, followed by the rest of his sake in (my) English: Jeff, do not ask me today when I first heard Emerson, Lake & Palmer's song "Ooooh, what a lucky man he was”. Believe me I was a lucky man last sunday afternoon visiting Bookbinde'rs fair in St. Niklaas near Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium. In the darkest corner near british, french, german, belgian and dutch bookbinding stuff suppliers I found my long time desire „press & plough”: used, some years old, in quite good condition, made of hard wood. After carefully treating with some PTFE-spray this little „maschinery” is on the way to become my favourite tool. The first tests with an old telephon book are promisingly. 18th century bookbinding may come now faster. Because me another, 
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