Love some advice about cleaning–also, I’m updating my progress with the Pearl tabletop here: scmorgan.net in anyone is interested! (And I’m taking the rollers off to clean at this point)

This might be too late for you – but it might be helpful for others browsing this thread. Pat Reagh in Sebastopol, CA sells complete sets of @ signs in both san serif and serif styles in 4 sizes on four different size bodies for easier alignment. You can get them on eBay.Gill Sans: http://www.ebay.com/itm/291240761297Century Old St…[Read more]

thank you! I love swaps and each time I learn something new 🙂 and they usually go more smoothly… But this one is less smooth but it will be great when all finished 🙂

Hey Angela, organising a swap is a big job and I really appreciate your efforts.

An update on the swap. We have had several folks drop out of the swap. We have one more gal doing her submission – I should have it any day now! If it doesn’t come by end of next week we will just go forward and ship out the submissions as is. Its disappointing to me to be only sending roughly half completed, this is the lowest completion rate I…[Read more]

Yes 🙂 Sorry I meant to get an email out to you!

Hi there! I have used Rit Dye on Lettra with great results. I also know another printer who uses KoolAid but I’ve never used it myself. I kept a town on hand to kind of wick away excess water off the bottom of my paper but other than that it was a really simple process. Good luck!

Hi TJ. Are they all gone? if not I’m interested in the yellow and one can of Dutch Fireball. Let me know cost to ship to 97701.thankssam

I am fairly new at this, too, but I’ve had great success with John Barrett (Letterpress Things) and NA Graphics. I visited John in MA a few weeks ago. For anyone close by, it is WELL worth a visit for all “things letterpress.” http://www.letterpressthings.com/ (Of course, briarpress.org is also a great list to follow.) Have fun!

Sure… just sent you a friend request so we can ship to each other.Let me know what need.Thanks!

I have lots of glyphs any particular size, I will get a picture shortly.would 5 of 10pt and 5 of 12pt work?

Mainly paper but if you have decorative glyphs (whatever size), type… really whatever.How many sets and of which do you need?

I would like to trade for 10 & 12pt sans serif “@” symbols.  What do you need?Thanks!Courtney

I have both serif and sans serif.more info here:https://ladiesofletterpress.com/forum/topics/symbol-set-of-10-serif-and-sans-serif

Hi Gary,Many, many thanks! It looks like it will be very helpful, and it is just the sort of guidepost I needed to keep me from the usual pitfalls—which, of course, involve broken bits and/or crunched fingers.When you need composing sticks, let me know and if I have duplicates, one is yours, with appreciation!Thanks again,Barb

Ok, it’s taken a while, but here it is:  I photographed in fairly high rez all the pages of my Ludlow manual, about 155-odd pages.  My PDF maker choked on the images, so these are .jpg images at about 8 mB per image, in a zip file, which I uploaded to my site.  You can download it here.If that link didn’t come through, try th…[Read more]

Hi Andrea!I started out with a 6×10 Kelsey table top press (and a Nolan cylinder press, which is a lot like a Showcard). I’ve since added a 10×15 C&P as well. The table top presses are great to learn on and are good for things that are smaller—business cards and greeting cards. I ran a 5×7 invite on the Kelsey once and it had a hard time…[Read more]