Visited a bindery in Portland and changed my whole approach to endpapers
I stopped by this small shop called Cedar Bindery off of SE Grand last Saturday just to grab some book cloth, and the owner let me watch her put in endpapers on a run of journals. She was using a paper I wouldve called too flimsy for the job, something like a 60 lb texture stock, and I told her so. She laughed and said the flex was the point, that stiff endpapers cause hinge stress every time. She showed me a 3 year old journal she made the same way and the joint was still perfect, no cracking at all. That got me thinking about the 20 or so rebinds I did last fall with heavy cardstock and how a couple of them already feel tight. I switched to a lighter cotton blend for my last 3 projects and the covers close so much nicer. Has anyone else played around with lighter endpaper weights, or am I just late to this party?