[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Saturday, 31 July 1999 Volume 08 : Number 645 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gayle Wohlken Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:15:19 -0400 Subject: [Baren 5099] Re: Baren Digest V8 #644 Elizabeth said: > For the Exchange print #1 and with careful calculations, I added the > extra ell to allow for more paper on the bottom for the > punch......paper which could be cut or torn off to comply with the > size requirements. So the paper is printed with the punch holes on the bottom? The paper went into the registration board sideways? * * * Dave, with the loss of the masters, who is doing the work? Are there apprentices? Also, I sure wish I could see that documentary this weekend that you are in but we don't have cable. :-( Gayle ------------------------------ From: James G Mundie Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:35:36 -0400 Subject: [Baren 5100] engraving substitutes, and other info gleaned from W.E.N. I seem to recall that someone (forgive me for forgetting exactly whom) recently stated that there were as yet no satisfactory substitutes for boxwood endgrain. When I read that, I wanted to dash off, "That's not what Barry Moser says..." but I got distracted. However, with the latest issue of _Block & Burin_ having just arrived, I can once again broach the subject. There is a fairly newish material by the trade name of "Resingrave" that has been causing quite a buzz among engravers. The well-known Barry Moser chosen to use Resingrave for the 240 engravings in his illustrated edition of the Bible (due out this fall). I read somewhere that Moser chose this material not only for its economy but for its properties. The adverts laud it as "The Affordable Boxwood Alternative for Fine Detail & Ease of Relief Engraving". Any [Baren] engravers out there who have given this stuff a try and can speak to its quality? *** Something else in the WEN package that caught my eye and might be of interest to some of you. There was an announcement for the "Great Northern Letterpress Printers' Flea Market" to be held 11 September 1999 on the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Michigan. Among the many presses, press tools and type available for sale, they claim there will much in the way of wood and engraving tools. Mise le meas, James Mundie ------------------------------ From: Wanda Robertson Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:46:02 -0700 Subject: [Baren 5101] Re: Digest V8#644(Dave interview®istration) Gayle Wohlken wrote: > So the paper is printed with the punch holes on the bottom? The > paper went into the registration board sideways? Doesn't matter which way your paper goes in as long as it goes in the same way every time, right? > Dave, with the loss of the masters, who is doing the work? Are there > apprentices? Dave, you may be credited with saving the art of Japanese print making in the future! And Gayle, our Public Broadcasting Station has a complete Japanese News program really late into the wee hours (with English Sub-titles) so you might want to check the program guides. That is what I plan to do. Hope we can see it! Wanda ------------------------------ From: "Jean Eger" Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 02:00:01 +0900 Subject: [Baren 5102] Here's a link to a beautiful online print exhibition from Texas Tech. http://www.art.ttu.edu/artdept/landmark/current.html Jean Eger ------------------------------ From: "Andy English" Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 19:12:35 +0100 Subject: [Baren 5103] Re: engraving substitutes, and other info gleaned from W.E.N. There are many other woods that can be used for engraving - I rearely use box unless I am making my own blocks (see recent posts). I have yet to use resingrave but most people I have spoken to find it a little "sticky"; along with most synthetic materials, the wood does not always fly at the end of the cut but sometimes has to be prised out. But trhat is hearsay. I'll have to try some. BTW, good to be in touch again, James Andy ------------------------------ From: arafat alnaim Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Baren 5104] RESINGRAVE Thanks to James G Mundie for the correction. What I knew about the Resingrave is that Richard Woodman, an English living in California, chemical researcher and wood engraver has created a compound which is fit for engraving and relief printing. This material is called "Resingrave", is produced in sheets with a thickness of mm.2,5 and is put on a support so that it reaches the height of types. The surface of "resingrave" is opaque white and consistently resistant to the engraving which can be mad with the same burins used in wood engraving. Richard Woodman has spoken of this material in one of the latest issue of printmaking today. It is produced in the USA in standared size and sold by Rembrandt Graphic Arts. The homogeneity and the hardness of this material are inferior only to those of Turkish box-tree, but its cost is inferior to that of the normal wood plates. "Resingrave" gives the possibility to correct mistakes though a resin kit which is given on application. Some years ago Simon Brett had already spoken about "Resingrave" in "Multiples" He is a wood engraver, president of the Society of Wood Engravers, author of many issues about English wood engraving and "Wood engraving-how to do" (Silent books Cambridge 1994)which many people think is one of the best, may be the best publication of this kind now available. I would appreciate any further information about what is mentioned in Printmaking Today, and Multiples about this material (I can't find them here) Greetings Arafat ------------------------------ From: John Ryrie Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 16:12:33 +1000 Subject: [Baren 5107] Re: engraving substitutes This information about Resigrave is very interesting I haven't herd of it before. I wasn't able to fined Rembrandt Graphic Arts on the web dos anyone have their address web or snail. There is another material that I didn't mention and that is Type metal was used by Jose Guadalupe Posada and it is impossible to tell the boxwood prints from the type metal ones. I have not been able to fined type-metal in sheets It used to be used for printing music. John Ryrie ------------------------------ From: Barbara Mason Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 23:37:00 -0700 Subject: [Baren 5108] Re: engraving substitutes Try http://rembrandtgraphicarts.com/ this should be it. 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