A giant thank you to all the employees, friends and family who helped with our Open Letterpress Studio on Friday last week. Several hundred showed up and helped us crush through hundreds of hot dogs, a couple kegs and a couple liters of Jagermeister. We had a wall of letterpress work up, a couple machines running in the press room, new tee shirts for sale and our “new” press arrived that morning, just in from Germany. Really a good day of letterpress!
The new beast is a very clean 1950′s Swiss-made hand feed platen press called a Gietz – one of three that we know of in the USA. (Please reach out to us if you also have one of these machines, we’d love to talk shop.) We look forward to completing the electric installation (that plug just won’t work) and getting ink on press.
Looks great! Well done everyone and good luck!
Really wish I could have made it to the show. An evening trip from AZ to MN seemed a little too far to pull off. Looking forward to seeing all the sweet work the new machine will be cranking out soon.
that machine is a beauty. congrats guys!
That press looks great. Best of luck with it.
I’m fascinated by this press. What is the chase size? What kinds of things do you think you’ll primarily use it for?
The chase is a 12 x 18.
Some thick papers can be difficult to run through presses with auto feed systems. (Windmills, Kluges) We plan to use this beast for small runs, say under a couple thousand. We wanted the flexibility of hand feeding like a Chandler and Price but with impressional strength and a solid inking system. We are finally installing it later this week after a complete motor rewire and rebuild of the controls.