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My leather grain ran the wrong way on a custom order for a Denver client
I was finishing a full leather binding for a local history book and realized I'd cut the spine piece with the grain running head to tail instead of across. This was after I'd already tooled the title. I saved it by carefully splitting the leather with a thin blade along the spine line and inserting a new, correctly grained piece underneath, then re-tooling. Has anyone else fixed a grain mistake without starting over?
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charles_kim5d ago
...and honestly, risky fixes are sometimes all you've got when the deadline is breathing down your neck. I've done similar patch jobs where you just cross your fingers and hope the grain blends in enough that only you can spot it. The fact that you saved the spine at all sounds like a win in my book, even if it kept you up at night wondering if it'd hold.
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