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Pro tip: check your grain direction before you glue 200 pages
I spent a whole afternoon hand sewing a text block for a custom journal, then my friend in Seattle asked why the pages were all wavy after I glued the spine. Turns out I had the paper grain running the wrong way the entire time, which I only realized when she pointed at the ripples and said 'that's not supposed to happen, right?'. Anyone have a good trick for remembering grain direction before you start a big project?
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taylorhunt7mo ago
Feel like half the stuff I mess up comes from missing one basic step at the beginning. Grain direction, reading the first line of a recipe, putting the USB in right side up. The foundation is always what gets you.
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evant487mo ago
Grain direction is the papercraft version of checking if your phone is plugged in before you panic about the battery. You'd think after the first hundred pages you'd notice something was off, but nope, full steam ahead into wavy-page land. My trick is to just accept that I'll waste a good Saturday at least once a year on a mistake like that. What's the actual method you're supposed to use, just bending the sheet to see which way it folds easier?
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