nice | Reflex Letterpress https://reflexletterpress.com Boston-Based Printing & Instruction in the Antique Art of Letterpress Thu, 22 Aug 2019 19:05:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://reflexletterpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-R-Colon-32x32.gif nice | Reflex Letterpress https://reflexletterpress.com 32 32 143383451 Free Wood Type https://reflexletterpress.com/free-wood-type/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 19:05:04 +0000 https://reflexletterpress.com/?p=1103 All sorts of interesting things walk through the door at Reflex Letterpress. I was all set up to do a quick refresher session with a woman who had a little Kelsey tabletop press, and charge her for the time, when she mentioned she had some wood type she didn’t need and would gladly donate it. …

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The post Free Wood Type first appeared on Reflex Letterpress.]]> All sorts of interesting things walk through the door at Reflex Letterpress. I was all set up to do a quick refresher session with a woman who had a little Kelsey tabletop press, and charge her for the time, when she mentioned she had some wood type she didn’t need and would gladly donate it. I told her that this was a perfect payment for the press assistance, and I was definitely right. It needs a little cleaning, but it looks like I might have three new complete alphabets ready for the wood type cabinet.

The little Kelsey

The post Free Wood Type first appeared on Reflex Letterpress.]]> 1103 New Cutter Finally Secured, Leveled and Aligned https://reflexletterpress.com/new-cutter-finally-secured-leveled-and-aligned/ Sun, 23 Jun 2019 01:28:15 +0000 https://reflexletterpress.com/?p=1029 Last weekend we manhandled a large piece of machinery into the Press, and this weekend I finally got the time to fix it up nice. I trued the backstop to the blade so it cuts nice and square, secured the pallet to itself and to the cutter, and installed the measuring tape so that you …

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The post New Cutter Finally Secured, Leveled and Aligned first appeared on Reflex Letterpress.]]> Last weekend we manhandled a large piece of machinery into the Press, and this weekend I finally got the time to fix it up nice. I trued the backstop to the blade so it cuts nice and square, secured the pallet to itself and to the cutter, and installed the measuring tape so that you can easily determine how big your cut is. It’s a really lovely piece of equipment, and is big enough to trim down parent sheets from the mill. Pics below!

   

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