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Why does nobody talk about grain direction? Wasted 6 months cutting all my paper the wrong way
I was cutting all my text blocks with the grain running the short way for like 6 months and couldn't figure out why my spines kept cracking when people opened the books. Last week a guy at the bindery in Ann Arbor asked me which way I was cutting and just pointed at his paper with a look like I was crazy. Turns out the grain has to run parallel to the spine, and I had been doing it backwards the entire time on every single book. Just re-did a journal I made for my sister and the difference in how it opens is night and day. How do you all check grain direction on a fresh stack without wetting the paper every time?
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jordan9037d ago
I used to just eyeball it and figure wetting a corner was the only real way, but that gets old fast when you have a whole stack. Now I tear a tiny strip off one sheet and see if it curls along the length or the width, which takes two seconds and saves the wet mess. The tear test changed my mind completely, never going back to guessing.
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