The more time I spend in the studio space, sharing the letterpress with others and explaining how things work, the more I realise don't actually have a huge bank of knowledge about our presses.
It's not something I have ever sat down to study; nor is it something I have people on tap I can just ask a million questions of.
I belong to a couple of letterpress groups and every now and again enter the conversations by asking the dumb questions; and they are always so helpful. From one of these groups I have learned that there are three different sorts of Adana Table Top presses.
So I decided in my spare moments I would try to assess which ones we have; and am beginning to try and develop an inventory of sorts.
Here are just some of the photos I have taken in an effort to differentiate between them.
Comparing the clamps that hold the baseline bar (my own, not a technical, term) in place begins the process.
oh ha! ... I love that last line ...
ReplyDeleteand those close-up pictures of the press parts look to be sketch-worthy
Despite at times appearing to be very focused; it is not my first up position, so to sort of work out accidentally that they are different and we shouldn't really interchange as much we had been was so funny!
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