Archive for October, 2010
all you need is
Posted in Letterpress, tagged moontree letterpress on October 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »
prints on the golding
Posted in Letterpress on October 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Just taking a quick break from a few hours of printing. I am working on some Brooklyn scene prints for tomorrow’s Flea. These illustrations are Cassidy Iwersen’s. We’re working on a calendar together, and the artwork came out so great we’re offering them as prints too. C’mon by the Flea to check them out. The [...]
new flea stuff
Posted in Letterpress on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Really excited to be finishing up my first full day of printing on my new Golding press. My base arrived late yesterday and this morning I started printing some new items for this weekend’s Brooklyn Flea. These are ‘borough coasters’, a set of 10 for $10. Swing by the Flea on Sunday to pick some [...]
test prints
Posted in Letterpress, Studio Life on October 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
After spending most of this week removing grease and rust from the Golding, I finally started doing some test prints. I don’t have a base for her yet, so I set some wood type to test impression and roller heights. PS: Does anyone have a 6×9 base they’d like to sell? Its so awesome seeing [...]
new presses!
Posted in Letterpress, Studio Life on October 5, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’m so excited today. Yesterday two new presses were delivered to my home in Bucks County, PA. One is a Golding Jobber No.6 made in 1904, the other is a C&P Old Style dating back to 1902. Both of these machines were rescues, they had been lovingly used as hobby presses by two different printers [...]