Look, I gotta be honest, sticking with that old wooden hawk sounds like stubborn pride more than smart work. Metal ones are lighter so you're less worn out by lunch, and that non-stick coating they use now is way better than sanding down splinters every other week. You might have kept pace this time, but you're fighting the tool instead of letting it help you. Sometimes newer is just better, and holding onto the past can slow the whole crew down.

Seriously? It's just hair, man. It grows back in two weeks. All that extra fuss for something nobody but you will even notice.

That guy at Kroger is basically a checkout line ninja.

My first mentor at the Boston library bindery called PVA the only glue for spine work. I stuck with that for years. Then I had a 1920s book with really thin paper that just would not behave. I tried a thin wheat paste and it was like the whole thing could finally breathe. That PVA would have been a stiff board on there. Sometimes the old way is the old way for a reason.

Actually I was there when it hit 500 and the auto-lock happened. The mod post about it is still up. The new rule did seem to just push the fight somewhere else though.