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Bottle-Jack Press

This weekend's fun project with Chippets was building this printmaking press so she wouldn't need to hand-rub all her linocuts. Go large.

 

The design is inspired by Peter Baker and Andy Tanguay. A big thanks to Andy for passing along his extra steel strut, used to make the columns of this.

 

[2017 Update! It seems loads of people end up here after googling about printmaking. I just want to re-emphasize that after this we needed to modify the design, adding a stiffer steel channel at the top of the bottle jack.]

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Uploaded on June 29, 2009
Taken on June 29, 2009