Traditional Hand Bound Fine Cloth Bindings on Modern Bibles

I get a lot of requests to save modern Bibles. They were usually purchased for $10 and have a short life because they are used so much. Also, because the covers are machine bound and the materials usually cost in the cents. I almost always choose to put on a new cover in cloth or leather. The goal is for the binding to last the length of the owners lifetime and then to be handed down to their children. I can rebind them in either cloth or full leather. People usually opt for cloth because of the $100 price tag. They receive new boards, headbands, mull, acidfree paper lining on the spine, the cloth is always something sturdy like a english buckram or canadian linen. They are a solid hardcover English Binding with excellent flexibility. I usually do a 22k gold hand tooled leather label and gold lines at head and tail of the spine. I try to save the original endsheets if possible as they usually have notes and scripture written all over them. http://www.book-restoration.com/