Vent: Why does nobody trim their mull before casing in anymore?

I swear, every second fanfic or rebind I get handed this month has mull sticking out a quarter inch past the boards. I just finished a batch of 14 journals from a local workshop in Portland and had to trim 10 of them myself. It takes two minutes with a sharp blade, but if you leave it, the hinge gets all lumpy and the endpaper tears on the turn-in. I learned this after my first 40 books came out with wavy joints, and it drove me crazy. Am I the only one who checks this before gluing up, or is everyone just rushing to the finish these days?

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carter.casey23d ago

My buddy runs a print shop in Tacoma and he says the same thing about people skipping the quiet details, like making sure the grain lines up before folding. Everyone wants the big finish, but nobody wants to do the boring two-minute step that makes it look right. Guess we're the weird ones for caring about the parts you can't see until later.