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- Wood Block /Linoleum Block press designed and home-built by Barry Goodell for print-making. Made with common materials and borrowing from common lever-press design, but with some innovations. This is a larger press than most on the market, 14-1/4" x 24" platens that are 1-1/2" (36mm) thick; built mostly from hardwood with a maple frame and Baltic birch platens. Common hardware was used in the assembly. To see some linoleum block prints made with this press, see also: • Printing with the Good...
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You rock. This is great.
Interesting idea. These presses are expensive to buy, so I appreciate you helping less well-heeled people build their own.
I wondered whether a cord or two going from the horizontal bar to the upper press plate might stop the plate swinging around when you're moving it into position to print? I noticed you're having to steady it with your hand every time you move it to print.
Not necessary, of course, but might make it easier to use, and it's a very low cost modification.
Sure, unless it interferes when the press platen (plate) when is lifted that sort of modification could be done if it is helpful. I don't do print-making, and this press was for my daughter-in-law. So far she has been happy with it. She also has a Woodzilla press which is a similar style that is made with a metal frame. The Woodzilla and other similar brands do not use any sort of stabilizing cord, but I am sure one can be attached if people find it helfpful. Thanks for the comment.
Great work!
Have you considered using metal on some of the parts? I'm wondering if some of the wood might crack if you give a lot of pressure
Thanks for the question Tiago. There are several commercial presses like the "Woodzilla", "Print Out" and others that are made in Russia and Europe with metal parts. So that challenge has already been met by others. Making a press like this from wood was the challenge I was interested in, and it seems to work quite well with no particular stress on the wood members. Note that there are metal hinges and other hardware that is commercially available, so this video is more of a "how to" guide that may give a little confidence to others that may want to try something similar, but that do not have welding or metal fabrication tools/skills.
Thank you from France! My girlfriend asked me if I can make a press for her. I only work with wood, so I wasn t sure to be abble to build something strong enough but thanks to your video, know I can!! 😊
Great! Glad that it helps. As long as you use a dense hardwood (maple, oak, ash, hickory, or similar) for the struts, you should be fine. Also, it will be important to use some heavy-duty hinges and perhaps adapt the way that they are used. (I just used some exterior galvanized strap hinges that I had hanging around, but any heavy duty strap hinge will be fine. I would use strap hinges just to allow good connection along the length of the struts. A key adaptation: At the lower-stress hinge points (2 of the hinges) I just used regular lag screws to fasten the hinges to the wood struts. But the other two hinges are potentially higher stress points, so I adapted the holes in the hinges a bit and then used through-bolts with a lock-nut (or lock-washer, and nut) to secure them to the wood. I have posted a picture here to show that: yt3.ggpht.com/Vh6uaCnmIGQloCFZJajai2AbWJQ09nY7NRAkayiwpEKjrdWnx_bsYgDp58Bxsq0bvxtzZ0rhy05u-A=s1600-nd-v1
Have fun building yours. Bon chance!
@@MrHolz1234 thanks for all this helpfull informations, and the link 😊
Have a nice day, bonne journée!
Are you making these to sell?
Sorry, I am not. But I am willing to provide guidance to anyone who wants to try building their own. It can be done with a table saw and power drill. Thanks for your interest.
@@MrHolz1234 unfortunately I don’t have a table saw, otherwise I would take you up on your offer. Thank you for your response. It looks great.
Do you have plans available on how to replicate this?
I have some drawings with notes, but generally I posted this just so that those with some ideas of their own could see that it was possible, and to borrow any ideas of mine that you see in the video. Estimating the length of struts and plattens to create the size press you want will be important. If you are handy with tools and metal work, those skills will be useful for a project like this. It may be quite challenging though for those without those skills as it requires some inventiveness and intuitive knowledge of mechanical properties to select the correct hinge size/style, bolts size, etc. So, the drawings could be frustrating for some, but helpful for others.
I added a drawing and some notes here for those interested in some of the details. This is not a tutorial (and not intended to be), but it may help those with some ideas for building something similar. studio.th-cam.com/users/postUgkxvkbQ0WoLqJrQJzkEJVmyaRJQ4K0aXKS3/edit
Sorry, I believe this contraption has design flaws. Aside from its quaint over-complexity, surely the biggest flaw is the weakness of various load bearing wood strips. If I had to print using top pressure, I would probably use a steel frame with hydraulic pressure. For example, a Harbor Freight hydraulic press could be arranged at a modest cost. Anyway, I am a professional printmaker. I print relief prints using a much better way: rolling them in an etching press. I realize that is a luxury because not everyone has access to an etching press. My point was that the larger the size of the print, the more difficult it is to apply adequate top pressure to achieve a good print.
For whatever reason she and many others preferred a lever-operated press like this for their linoleum-block and wood-block prints, so of course that is what I made. (She had a deep aversion to roller etching presses for some reason). The wood struts in my design are well under their load capacity and the press is not in any danger of failing after many uses. I agree a simple hydraulic press would probably work fine - although slower opening and closing. I think some of this may be simple esthetics, and the hydraulic press and roller press apparently lack esthetic appeal for some. She expressed an interest in a "Woodzilla" style hand-press, so that this project is about.