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Shoutout to the lady at the library who pointed out my grain direction mistake
I was rebinding a cookbook from the 70s last month, one of those thick community fundraiser ones. I was so focused on getting the cover right that I didn't even think about the paper grain for the new endpapers. I just grabbed some nice 120gsm paper I had. The lady who runs the local history room at the library saw me working on it during a repair workshop and just gently asked, 'Is that grain running the long way?' I had to check, and sure enough, it was wrong. The book was already fighting me, wanting to stay open weird. I felt so dumb, I've been doing this for like two years and just assumed heavier paper was less fussy. It totally explained why some of my past projects felt stiff. Has anyone else had a simple grain direction slip-up that messed with a whole project?
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ryan_shah386d ago
Oh man, that's such an easy thing to miss. Spencer_park26 is right, the basics get you every time. I've glued up a whole signature before realizing the grain was wrong.
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marywilson6d ago
Funny how you can work with paper for ages and still get the basics wrong. I used to think grain direction was just for fancy bookbinding until a whole batch of my journals started warping. Now I check every single sheet, even for quick projects. That library lady saved you a lot of future headaches.
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