• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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I know this is not relevant here but I thought I would share it any way.

2020-08-11_12-38-30 by my0771, on Flickr

I have been searching for one of these for some time, for those who dont recognise it.
John T Marshall hot foil printing machine made in UK from 1/2 inch plate it weighs in at around 60kg.
 
I started cleaning it this morning and was thinking how Wallace might go about this :) Clearly the only solution the previous user had was sticky tape there is tape residue all over it.
I think it was made in 1980 I found a company online who sell spares who have found me a new belt and a copy of a manual.
I have been collecting brass type for a few years to work with this machine well to be honest I have one full set.
 
Hi Rod
My main use is going to be text for which I have been buying letterpress type, Brass is best as it lasts forever I was fortunate to buy a large set actually there are so many pieces I think I could make two sets. I bought these in 2018 and have been looking for a suitable machine since then.

In the mean time Bob my brothers mate made me some holders I could use in an arbour press.
Wet leather is very easy to mark I have left fingernail marks on leather in the past.

20180526_105301 by my0771, on Flickr

20180501_220808 by my0771, on Flickr

20180501_220827 by my0771, on Flickr

I have not plugged it in yet, as all of the parts are still available I will get an electrician to check it over before I worry about that side.

Magnesium is popular for large stamps you send in your artwork on A4 either a large one or number of smaller stamps, then you cut it up when it arrives I will share once I have one made.
My daughter and I bought a 3d printer a couple of weeks ago although they wont take a lot of heat they will emboss into wet leather.
 
That’s quite a selection.

My father was a Compositor and worked in lead in the early days. I’ve got his type holding tool somewhere. Every thing they made is read backwards.

Rod
 
I have cleaned the printing press and had the electrics checked and all is good. All I need to do now is learn how to use it. I did manage to buy an instruction manual for £3 and a new belt for £10.
The brass type is a little more shocking around £600 for the upper and lower case set I asked for it to be made from brass not gold :)

2020-08-16_05-18-17 by my0771, on Flickr

Day 2 of playing with settings I think I am getting the hang of things now.
 
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