I managed to accomplish quite a bit today....

• Acquire wax paper (local grocery store)
• Acquire sheet metal (Home Depot)
• Discover the metal brake is poorly adjusted, turning my first cut into a fold
• Discover the disadvantages of using tin snips for long cuts through sheet metal (it bends your scrap and creates sharp edges)
• Locate some help to fix the metal brake
• Do a preliminary fix for the metal brake, only to discover the machine wasn't holding tension (removing safety guards, tuning distance/tension on brake's blade)
• Fix the metal brake for real
  • Clean most of the metal brake, via acetone and shop towels.
  • Apply loctite to bolts that need it
  • Tune metal brake distances
• Construct jig
• Glue pages
• Document

Tomorrow, I'll hopefully be able to trim the text block, and glue the cover on the book. I'll update once done.