Cloudy
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My buddy, Tom Curran, finally bought a press and pulled a couple of prints for me- I'm hooked now!
someday your prints will come
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That's so cool. Can you share info on the press?
Cloudy
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Tom got one of these for doing his own prints- he's doing fantastic work in this line!
http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-906-etching-press/
http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-906-etching-press/
Nice! this remember me my days like student at the academy of fine Arts!!!
Use a more thick plate next time to avoid the extra deep on the paper, but look very nice!
Will be great engrave a plate like business card and print them in this way, i was thinking on it time ago but press like this are not cheap.
Use a more thick plate next time to avoid the extra deep on the paper, but look very nice!
Will be great engrave a plate like business card and print them in this way, i was thinking on it time ago but press like this are not cheap.
mitch
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i did some print work about a thousand years ago and really enjoyed it. i've always intended to get back to it, but we all know how that goes....
nice work, Catherine! at a glance, you'll want to either start using much thinner plates and/or rounding off edges. thick, sharp/square edges can stretch out and cut the blankets.
www.cronite.com is a good source for steel plates, etc. btw- you have NEVER engraved anything so deliciously compliant. cuts like buttah. i wish they made knife bolsters & guns out of that stuff!
nice work, Catherine! at a glance, you'll want to either start using much thinner plates and/or rounding off edges. thick, sharp/square edges can stretch out and cut the blankets.
www.cronite.com is a good source for steel plates, etc. btw- you have NEVER engraved anything so deliciously compliant. cuts like buttah. i wish they made knife bolsters & guns out of that stuff!
Cloudy,What Model 906 etching press did Tom buy,one cost $846.00 and bench model cost $249.00 what is the deference between the two press's? J.J.
FANCYGUN
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Great print Cloudy
When I was a student doing printmaking, we either used copper plates which can get expensive or zinc plates that we bout someplace in Manhattan. The zinc actually cut pretty good usind the dry point technique or with acid.
When I was a student doing printmaking, we either used copper plates which can get expensive or zinc plates that we bout someplace in Manhattan. The zinc actually cut pretty good usind the dry point technique or with acid.
Cloudy
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The plates I used were just for engraving- I took them to show Tom and he offered to print them. If I was doing this with prints as the end result (which I will do now) I'll certainly use thinner stock
mtgraver
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Nice job Cloudy!! Nice to hear that Tom is ...... playing! a little bit, hehe, all the best in this new venture.
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