Baren Digest Friday, 29 September 2000 Volume 12 : Number 1161 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Artsmadis@aol.com Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:35:39 EDT Subject: [Baren 11489] Re:Polymetaal Presses In a message dated 9/28/00 5:38:49 AM Central Daylight Time, b.patera@worldnet.att.net writes: <> Several postings at this message board, you should be able to find some info and recommendations http://www.mtsu.edu/~art/printmaking/wwwboard/wwwboard.html Darrell ********************* http://members.aol.com/artsmadis/index.htm.htm 70 pages so far ********************** ------------------------------ From: B Mason Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 06:37:16 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11490] Re: Baren Digest V12 #1159 Gayle, This press works well for linocut, I am not sure about wood, you would have to be careful. I used such a press for wood in college and it worked well, but I was not doing fine line work, nor was I using damp paper. Of course damp paper would make it print easier. I was using oil, not water. I think it would be way too slow for water based ink. Barbara Gayle Wohlken wrote: ------------------------------ From: "Jeanne Norman Chase" Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:25:48 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11491] Exchange 7 charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Kelsey Smith would you please get in touch with me re; Exchange 7? Thanks Jeanne studiojnc@prodigy.net ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:47:43 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11492] Re: Baren Digest V12 #1159 Gayle wrote..... >The nipping press has a plate that comes down onto the lower plate >by turning a wheel that looks like a small steering wheel Any press that has a surface that pressed against the bed is called a 'Platen' press. Graham ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:58:20 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11493] Re:Polymetaal Presses >Have visited the Polymetaal site... >Barbara P. Have you considered Patrick presses.... from Canada. Several members have purchased these and I understand like the very much. The have an excellent reputation here on the coast. Graham/Victoria BC An Island in the Pacific ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:00:37 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11494] Patrick presses. Should have mentioned that the Canadian buck is at 45% on your bucks it is absolutely the bargin of a lifetime. Graham >Have visited the Polymetaal site... >Barbara P. Have you considered Patrick presses.... from Canada. Several members have purchased these and I understand like the very much. The have an excellent reputation here on the coast. Graham/Victoria BC An Island in the Pacific ------------------------------ From: "Gregory D. Valentine" Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Baren 11495] Re: nipping / bookbinder's press Same thing; the advantage of rollers is uniform pressure across the plate. Not necessarily true with a platen that is screwed down, but think of all those wonderful Renaissance books and prints that were done with an equivalent press; it can certainly serve the purpose for relief printing. - --Greg Valentine ------------------------------ From: "Angela Oates" Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:23:23 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11496] Re: Patrick presses. charset="iso-8859-1" Graham, Thanks for your info on the Patrick presses. Do you by chance know if they have a web site and its address? Have had some difficulty in finding it so far. Thanks, Angela ------------------------------ From: "Bill H. Ritchie, Jr" Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:52:01 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11497] Re: Baren Digest V12 #1159 charset="iso-8859-1" It's a coincidence too hard to pass up. I didn't know what I had was a nipping press. What a funny name. The coincidence is because I just today sent my next postcard to the Mitchell Press, and in the one of images you can make out my nipping press I had in 1966. (right hand oval snapshot, barely visible, behind my shoulder). It was beautiful, but it's gone. It had a 14 inch platen, but wasn't designed for printing except small (3 X 4 inch) blocks. The pressure needed to print larger blocks was beyond the ability of the design; with leverage a person could force it, but it would eventually break the press, I think. ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:56:23 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11498] Re: Patrick presses. >Graham, > >Thanks for your info on the Patrick presses. Do you by chance know if they >have a web site and its address? Have had some difficulty in finding it so >far. > >Thanks, >Angela I will contact them to see if they have created a website. Stay tuned... Graham ------------------------------ From: Cucamongie@aol.com Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:06:46 EDT Subject: [Baren 11499] Shireen's website Hi all. Shireen, loved looking at your book, then I looked at the other work you have on your website, and of course especially love the subway series of prints - a subject for a project I've been thinking about for some time and will attempt to tackle sometime in the near future in NYC. You captured so much character and feeling in these images - bravo! and thanks for sharing them with us. best wishes Sarah ------------------------------ From: "Daniel L. Dew" Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:35:10 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11500] Re: presses Is it just my computer, or are you sending out your mail dated 1939? Ping me back if you use an iMac and I can tell you how to re-set it. dan dew Or Graham Master could also. ------------------------------ From: "Maria Arango" Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:07:13 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11501] press charset="iso-8859-1" I purchased a Dan Patrick press early this year. I found it of great quality, manageable by a single artist of smallish size but burly muscle, precise, and beautiful. Mine is 24" x 36" floor model and will print a 22" x 30" full sheet with some difficulty. Only complaint is that I should have gotten a larger one probably, but what the hey. Make sure you invest in the micro-gauges. Picture and contact information on D.P. here (they will send you a brochure): http://www.printmakingstudio.com/Studionotes/registration/resgister2.html Oh, make sure that you specify that whoever delivers it has a forklift or hydraulic bed in the truck. Not a pretty scene having to unload by hand with a slightly ticked off delivery man and an extremely irritated artist (the same small-burly one). They have some small presses, table tops, that are so cheap right now with the Canadian/US exchange that I am seriously considering a tiny addition to the studio for engravings. Price ranges from $200-$2000 US, plus crating, plus cash-on-delivery charge, plus an extra unexpected bill you will receive later from the Canadian border export. Everybody wants your $ Maria <><><><><><><><><><><><> Maria Arango, Printmaker Las Vegas Nevada USA http://www.1000woodcuts.com maria@mariarango.com <><><><><><><><><><><><> ------------------------------ From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:06:53 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11504] Hamada? >from Ray Hudson: Andrea--You might glance at Colta Feller Ives' The >Great Wave: the Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints >(Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974)--a classic study. Also, on the >influence of Asian arts, look at Bernard Leach's The Potter's Challenge, >edited by David outerbridge (E.P. Dutton & Co., 1975). Ray, two very good calls! I forgot about Bernard Leach, but he is a great link to Japanese potters. What is the name of the potter he was pals with? Hamada? The most moving and intelligent pots I have ever seen....sounds strange, but they were great. And there is a link between the importance of craft in pottery and woodcut. Think of the rythm of throwing a bowl and the rythm of printing a woodcut. A challenge to put it together, but sounds like a fun project. Good luck with your residency, Andrea. And Shireen, nice book! Wonderful light and pattern. April Vollmer 174 Eldridge St, NYC 10002, 212-677-5691 http://www.aprilvollmer.com End of Baren Digest V12 #1161 *****************************