• Scan of print of vintage Homework pause Coca-cola advertisement, printed on off white card stock on a Golding Jobber #6

    Printing vintage Coca-cola advertisement to verify press adjustments

    A while back I was visiting John Barret’s Letterpress Things and picked up a couple of mounted cuts – one of a vintage Coca-cola advertisement was used to verify my press adjustments. I printed using black Van Son rubber based ink on some random off white .27mm card stock. The photos that follow are of [...]

  • John Falstrom's Roller / Platen Gauge (Side view)

    Using a platen roller gauge to prepare press for printing

    Among some of the items I purchased from John Falstrom, was his platen and roller gauge. It’s a very simple device made from delrin and brass, right out of his shop in Lyme, Connecticut.  In preparation to get printing with my Golding Jobber #6, I set out to fine-tune my platen alignment and then check [...]

  • Boxcar Press website: Boxcar Base Technology

    Understanding which Boxcar base you need is all about your roller bearers

    There is something romantic about moveable type. If you are into letterpress you likely have some, even if you are primarily using digital output to photopolymer, magnesium or copper plates. What the novice quickly learns is that type is an investment – it costs a lot, its heavy and requires space to keep it organized [...]

  • Side view of the Golding Jobber #6 after adding a variable speed motor drive

    Motorizing a Golding Jobber #6

    Golding & Co. presses have a fantastic esthetic about them. This becomes even more evident when they move. This past weekend I pulled together the last month’s accumulated bag of parts and my Golding Jobber #6 turned over under variable power for the first time. The prior owner had a ½ horsepower motor connected to [...]

  • Moving the Golding Jobber #6 onto the platform

    It is a Golding Jobber #6!

    Just as I was about to take on the project of restoring a Golding Improved #11 (sourced from John Falstrom) my frenetic research brought me into contact with a Golding Jobber #6. Paul Brubaker over at BinderyTools purchased the press from the prior owner’s widow and from first looks it seemed to be in pretty [...]

The Makers

Last in LA: Aardvark Letterpress and McManus & Morgan Paper

When you research about letterpress on the Internet you will soon find yourself in the Briar Press forums absorbing the historical narrative of those who asked before you. A few years ago my day job was building online social spaces where enabling contribution was the key to capturing knowledge  as information and the graph overlay [...]