SOL 4- Frustration

Frustration

I spent 2-3 hours hand binding a book, and it didn't work, to put it frankly. I started off with folding all of the pages, arranging them into signatures, then starting to sew them together. All while Animaniacs season 4 is blaring in the background. What's wrong with watching Sound of Music spoofs while sitting in the same place for hours on end? Anyways, back to the topic at hand. I finally finish sewing together the final signature, and I look at it all put together... and the pages aren't aligned, some are far off, like REALLY far off.

UGGGHHH!

Well, lets remain serious here, how can I fix this? the paper is to thick to just cut off with scissors and make level, so I would have to do it page by page. Well, I'm not going to spend another hour on it when it's already 10 o'clock at night. So, what else can I do? OK, I'll try using an x-acto knife against a ruler. I spend 20 minutes on that and... guess what? It made it worse!
I guess I just need to finish binding it and just finish it at this point. So, I did all that, and I must say it's not to bad. Until you look at the side, which literally looks like a jagged cliff on the side of your page.

Apparently everything on YouTube doesn't work. This just goes to show that binding books is quite difficult, and that you need a lot of practice to do things right. I guess I now have a 1/9-way decent sketchbook? Eh, I'll try to find a way to salvage it.

And now, a random baby penguin

(I don't know, I can't find a suitable picture and I'm tired)