PORT LUDLOW, Jefferson County - In a small, quiet workshop on three acres of rural land, bookbinder David Myhre carefully wraps an Ace bandage around an old, worn Bible. The Bible is centuries old, its ornate leather cover rotted in places, its spine barely held together when it arrived at Myhre's doorstep.
Over several days, he has carefully scraped old glue off the underside of the old leather with a dull X-acto knife, pared sheets of new leather to replace the old, and glued the restored original spine cover on top.
"When you get injured, what do you do?" asks Myhre, who puts the bandage on to make sure pressure is evenly distributed as the new glue dries. "You put an Ace bandage on it. Well, this book is sort of injured. It needs a new spine."
In this painstaking, meticulous way, Myhre, 61, is giving new lives to old Bibles that often have great personal meaning for their owners.
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