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Watching a bunch of tutorials online, I keep seeing people skip the grain direction check on their book board and it's going to cause problems later.
I mean, if you don't line up the grain to run parallel with the spine, your cover is going to warp like crazy after a few humidity changes, which I learned the hard way on a batch of 20 journals I made last spring.
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noahs826mo ago
Ugh, that's the worst. @wyatt_green, I feel your pain, it's like watching a slow motion disaster you can't stop. My first real woodworking project was a picture frame that twisted itself into a pretzel for the same basic reason.
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jamesmason5mo ago
My buddy built a whole coffee table before letting the wood settle, ended up with a permanent bowl shape in the middle.
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wyatt_green6mo ago
Those 20 warped journals in my closet are a sad, expensive monument to skipping that step.
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price.alice5mo ago
Saw a woodworker online who said warping is basically the wood's memory fighting back. It wants to be a tree again, and bad prep lets it try. Letting stuff sit in your shop for a week before you even touch it seems to be the real trick.
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