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Political Printing

24 Wednesday Oct 2012

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No, not for the big guns out in Washington. A local effort at a level where politics might actually be effective – my friend Tim is running for a township trustee opening. Since the position has a huge pay of about $25.00 a meeting (monthly if he’s lucky) and an equally miserable benefit package of absolutely nothing for a township of maybe 800 people we thought we’d approach this the way our founding fathers did – on the cheap!

Even better, we stole the wire frames for the road signs from the opposition! (joke)

Tim only needed about a dozen signs to keep him competitive with his opponent so we broke out some leftover tyvek house wrap and I got out cases of wood type. I hand inked the type in two colors with small brayers and in a few hours we were done.

I gotta say I felt a lot like ol’ Ben Frankiln doing this job. “The power of the press belongs to those that own one!”

Voelker update & Studio News for the day

14 Thursday Jun 2012

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Work continues on binding The Intruder. Fifty copies of the regular edition have been sewn onto straps and have the super attached at the spine along with the 20 copies of the deluxe edition. The cover boards, cloth spines and cover paper are all cut and ready for a case making marathon today. A few posts down I was still musing on what cover paper I should use for the regular edition of the book. I hope no one took me seriously about the cork (how long could that really last? I’m talking centuries here.) I’ve settled on a lovely sheet from Twinrocker called Rustler made of cotton and cereal fiber. Kathryn and Howard at Twinrocker have been making fine papers since 1971, this sheet is no disappointment. Here’s yet another prototype binding as well:

Additionally, I had yet another job from the State of Michigan Archives office. A rush job that I only got the artwork for last Thursday night. The funnest part of this job was printing a really large sheet (18.5 x 26″) on my Vandercook 219. I’ll let the pictures talk for themselves on this one:

 

It’s been busy, I also cranked out some nice wedding invitations for a friends daughter and 1500 beer coasters for a new bar and grill opening up in Traverse City, MI by some other friends.

Oh, and I got to go fishing one night as well, nice brookies….