We’ve just received advance notice that this year’s Howard Iron Works Print Expo & Fair will be on Saturday, September 27th, from 10am-4pm, and will feature as special guest Amos Kennedy, Jr. We’ll be there with our selection of stuff…
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Initial Work on the New Type & Rule Caster
While the weather was good for working outside I started to work on getting the new Type & Rule caster operational again, for now concentrating on the pot and pump side of things. The caster is fitted with a bottom-crank…
An Addition to the Type Foundry
Two years ago I found out that this Monotype caster, fitted for strip casting, was available for free in the Toronto area. Unfortunately, at the time, I had no room for it and needed to expand our shop space to…
An Addition to the Workshop
I just purchased a new-to-me machine for my workshop:This is a DoAll DH-612 manual surface grinder. Based on the serial number this one was made in 1959 and that may have been the first year of production for this model…
Inside the Beast
Last year we purchased a new-to-us Noble & Wood Cycle Beater for beating pulp for papermaking. It has, since then, been sitting in a corner in our shop taking up space. This was mainly because we also had so many…
Grimsby Wayzgoose, April 26th, 2025
The Grimsby Public Art Gallery will be holding their Wayzgoose Book Arts Fair on Saturday, April 26th, 2025, hosted by the Gallery and extending into the Grimsby Public Library space. This gathering of book artisans has taken place annually since…
New and Improved Spam Comments
This blog has always received a stream of spam comments, generally consisting of easily-recognized banal statements about how the post was really helpful, or well-written, or some such other positive comment, but with no actual reference to the topic of…
BOUND Book Arts Fair, December 1st 2024, Downtown Toronto
December 1st, 2024, we will be at the BOUND Book Arts Fair, at the Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto. We will have our stock of marbled and handmade paper for sale, as well as an assortment of…
Previously-unseen Casting Problem
I ran into this casting fault when making a font of 36-point Lanston #675 Bodoni Ultra. I’ve never had this happen before and I haven’t seen this problem mentioned in any of the literature. The type is developing, for lack…
Improved Monotype Parts Storage
Over the summer we’ve been fixing up another storage room and it is finally finished enough to start storing things in it! The first thing to go in is my collection of Monotype parts. Up until now these cases have…
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