A while ago I made a new spring for the operating lever latch on my Monotype caster, based on specifications passed to me by Bill Welliver. The problem was that when the line length was incorrect, the column pusher was…
Category: Other people
A Trip to West Virginia
The display matrices I had purchased in the recent Anderson auction were heavy enough that it would have cost several hundred dollars to ship them. Instead I took a couple of days to drive to Terra Alta, WV, to visit…
Tagged with: Rich Hopkins
A Bit of Font Casting
I have a short project in the works, and since I don’t have a Monotype Keyboard or a computer interface for the caster, I have to fall back to hand setting some text. I have a few paragraphs that I…
Tagged with: Ian Schaefer
Unclogging Cooling Passages in a Monotype Mould
After installing my refurbished 10-point mould on my caster I tested the cooling water flow and found that the flow through the mould itself (rather than just the cooling passages in the table) was inadequate. I know from when I…
Tagged with: Rich Hopkins
Back from the OCADU Book Arts Fair
We’re back from yesterday’s book arts fair at OCADU in Toronto, and we had a pretty good time there. Attendance was steady but not so packed for people to have trouble circulating. The weather looked a bit bleak but wasn’t…
Replacement safety curtain guides for platen press
Stephen Sword, a friend from the Book Arts Guild of Richmond Hill, has a platen press at home fitted with a safety curtain. A metal frame rises above the edge of the platen as the press closes to push the…
Tagged with: Stephen Sword
Back from Monotype University
The past ten days or so of blog silence were because I was in Terra Alta WV for Monotype University 8, and what little spare time I had rarely coincided with what few times I had Internet access. That’s me…
Papermaking for the Dundee Pottery Arts Camp
Tomorrow we will be hosting a two-hour papermaking session for kids in collaboration with the Arts Camp organized by Dundee Pottery. Hiding out of sight is also a supply of glitter and other decorations to add to the paper.
Tagged with: Dundee Pottery
Photos from the Washi workshop
Today we held a washi workshop for a lady and her two daughters (and their dog Willow, who was not paying much attention to the proceedings). The lack of names in this post is not because I’m trying for anonymity,…
Marbling Workshop
We had a group of five ladies in our shop today for a marbling workshop. It was not our usual marbling course because they were mainly interested in marbling fabric, rather than learning various marbling patterns. We started out on…
Top