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Stimulating new neural pathways?

June 27, 2014 ·

I’m hoping all this learning, studying, discovering will give me some advantage in old age.

Today I’m reading about ATF type vs monotype. And then there’s Ludlow, which I bought accidentally. I now know that News Gothic made by one foundry won’t necessarily work with one made at another. I’m wishing I hadn’t tried to pinch pennies by buying a limited type set. I bought a set of News Gothic, but with only one letter of each, they are not much use. I also should have kept to a few type sizes so I wouldn’t have to buy spacing for so many sizes.

However, despite feeling like I’ve emptied my bank account and lost my mind, I am really moving forward. And even with my basic proof press I am better at inking, setting type, and printing. One day I’ll look back on all this and laugh.

#letterpress

 

 

Filed Under: learning, letterpress

So I was doing it all wrong….

June 17, 2014 ·

photo (66)“You’ve forgotten a lot,” Stuart said, walking over to the composing stone. Sigh.

Yes, I had.

I spent time with him today for a private lesson. (It seems I need a lot of lessons.) But this time I’m hoping it sticks. Three lines of type, the right spacers, and quoins and furniture placed correctly inside the chase.

Sweet!

 

Filed Under: letterpress

Strange New Type

June 14, 2014 ·

photo (62)I’ve been trying to gather what I need to print–to continue to learn–and to produce. I recently ordered a set of wood type from India off ebay. I wasn’t sure what I was getting, nor was I confident it would even arrive. It did. And today I tried printing for the first time.

Unfortunately, some of the letters aren’t cut well. But they are type high, and they’ll have to do for now. I am still missing quads and spacers. My lockup is pretty pathetic looking since I don’t have enough to fill in the spaces evenly.

I also realized today I should be locking my type up parallel to the roller. I’ve been placing it lengthwise so the roller moves across the type instead of “with” the time. I’ve got four hours to practice tomorrow so I’ll see if it makes a difference.

Some days are more frustrating than others.

 

Filed Under: learning, letterpress

Letterpress- the magazine

June 13, 2014 ·

If you are following along because you are interested in #letterpress, you’ll want to read this magazine produced in 2007. I am working my way through the issues.

 

Filed Under: letterpress

Do Better Tomorrow

June 11, 2014 ·

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities
no doubt have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with
your old nonsense.

This day is all that is
good and fair.
It is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on yesterdays.

Emerson

 

Filed Under: mindfulness, thinkingabout

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