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Etching Press ShowcaseHighly Customized DesignsOther Showcase Categories As you can see from the presses on this page you can customize your press any way you see fit if you like. It can be light or heavy, big or small, change the appearance of the frame and add features important to the way you work.
______________________________________________________ Well, the project has been successfully completed. Considering the amount of time and research in getting all components together, and detailed drawings to suit locally available components I decided to construct two presses, as another family member needed one also.
_________________________________________________________________________ Andrew K Gott
Here is a rather well documented press project by Andrew Gott. It shows how determination gets the job done!
Dear Doug, I owe you a ‘THANKS’ and LONG overdue! So... THANKS! One of the best $25 I ever spent!I used your plans to jump-start my 5x10 foot stationary bed pinch-roller press and... Well it all worked out very well! http://mlyon.com/2005/10/large-format-woodblock-printing-press/ was my first post about your plans and my work... But maybe the best illustrations are in videos... Have a look at http://mlyon.com/2006/02/movie-aspen-grove-pigment-application/ for one example of the press in use. You’ll find others if you look. Again, MANY thanks, Doug! You were a great help! Mike Mike LyonKansas City, MO http://mlyon.com ______________________________________________
Hi Doug,As I promised, I send you some better pictures of my portable press. All the press is made of aluminum anticorodal, an aeronautical league, the cylinders are cm. 52 wide and have a diameter of mm. 140. If I need to move the press I take off the bed (cm. 130x52) that weights nearly 18 Kg. and I deplace everything by myself. The press itself weights around 30 kg. So I thing the total weight is less than 50 kg. (less than lb 111). Greetings, Walter Wow! What Can I Say, A True Work Of Art Walter! _______________________________________________________
Here is the skinny on the press. The rollers are about 36 5/8 in width, for large format posters. The press plate is about 48x37. The entire press is enclosed by birch plywood with drying racks for about 27-54 posters (depending on size). I move a lot so the table was built in about five pieces that fit together. The shelves on the bottom are 3'x3' cubes that bolt easily together. There are large wood pieces that fit over the top that allow me to use the press as a work space when I am not using it. Eric has been kind enough to share the plans for his great press bench design...
Finished press bed is 36" x 66" rollers are 34". It works smoothly. You may notice that the gear box is quite thin as the axle end on the bottom roller which was adapted from a different design was only 3". This necessitated quite a few changes. the paint is a hammered finish silver. Richard ___________________________________________________________
Chris I would like to quote a rather famous Canadian Red Green he once said "If your wife don't find you handsome, she should at least find you handy" I don't know if the first part of this quote applies I've never met Chris but I certainly know the latter part does. Great job! A few notes from Chris: Roller length is 30", the bed is 34"x34" and total length is just over 60". I doubt my wife will ever pull a print that large but who knows? Feel free to use the photos. As far as hints, I made the project tougher than it needed to be. My wife was very skeptical of the project so I over engineered some of the materials. Thicker steel plates etc. It was overkill. The size of the rollers and plates make it heavy and awkward to put together. I should have followed your plans to keep the weight down. I work for a newspaper and have access to a machine shop. So I really was able to keep the cost low by machining the plates and rollers myself from scrap that I purchased at a yard. Total cost was about $800 and most of that was for gears and take up bearings. The table is made from fur 2x10's and fur 4x4 posts. I turned the posts on a lathe and mortised the 2x10 sides into the posts. My wife insists that it is better than the Takach she used to borrow at a friends studio. The plans were great! Thanks for saving me about $5,000.
George's Press
Hi Doug, Finally finished my etching press after downloading the plans last year. It took awhile, but the result is pretty good I think. The machinist who made the press made a suggestion which you might incorporate in your plans, to add a stiffener inside the roller, so as to prevent bending the axle. Mine is 30" and it works like a dream! Regards, George
Doug Jaap
The size is 33.5 x 55(bed). Works great, real smooth. I am looking forward
to building another now that I know it works so well. Hoping to sell
the next one and at least pay for the first. ____________________________________________________
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