My instructor at the 2022 Guild workshop told me to always pre-punch my sewing holes. Tried skipping it on a personal project and the signatures are a mess.

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Wait, you went to a Guild workshop and they had to tell you that? I'm honestly surprised it wasn't the first thing they covered. That pre-punching step is like the one rule you never break. The paper just folds and moves in a totally wild way if you try to sew through unpunched signatures, it's a guaranteed mess every single time.

the_jennifer1mo ago

Read it in a book once, still messed it up.