Thanks so much for the response! I’m a bit torn on what to do. I’ve been reading up on kelseys and they don’t seem to have the best reputation in the letterpress community! Finicky to work with, not great impressions, limitations in size.
I’m just not sure what my ultimate goal is… playing around just for myself or for sellable results, maybe one day (in the next 1-2 years?!) doing wedding invitations or creating cards. I’m not sure if I should just go for something like a C&P 6×10 table top press/a sigwalt 6×9 instead and at least have it provide me a few years for decent sellable results before outgrowing the machine.
I’m so excited about letterpress in general. I have a few 5×8 kelseys readily available (one at $700 with a bunch of type included, brand new rollers, etc) so I don’t know how long I’ll have to wait to actually FIND one of the other machines and also at what expense (1k+).
I greatly appreciate your response and honesty! My interest is ever growing and filled with excitement 😀