Okay. If $125 is the last bit we need put me down.
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Woo-hoo. I already volunteered to pick it up, but it happens to be in Rowlett, TX, the exact town I lived in for 5 years. What are the odds?
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I forgot to mention that we have most of what we need to make flexo (photopolymer) plates for the letterpress, as well. Here’s a very short YouTube video about them.
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This is all moving along faster than I anticipated. 
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Okay, kids. We bought ourselves a $4000 printing press for $600, and didn’t spend any MakeICT money to do it! Excellent!
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Let me know when/how you’d like me to get you the money.
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Just put in the the payments box, and mark the envelope “Printing Press”. The payments box is the blue box to the right of the 3D printers.
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I picked some Thursday Friday and Sunday dates in January to start the conversation.
- Jan 2 Thursday
- Jan 3 Friday
- Jan 5 Sunday
- Jan 19 Sunday
- Jan 23 Thursday
- Jan 24 Friday
- Jan 26 Sunday
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I put it in the box last night.
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One of my favorite YouTubers is Jimmy DiResta. He just did a YouTube video on bookbinding, which was pretty cool. Nothing there that we couldn’t do at the makerspace, for sure.
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We got it, thank you!
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For those of you who just can’t wait to learn to run the Heidelberg, here’s a link 
to the user manual 
(downloadable PDF file, about 10 MB). Feel free to get a head start!
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We need to make sure we have a drip pan under the machine as the manual says oil will eventually drip and ruin the concrete… or so the book says 
Yeah, that’s standard procedure when setting it up. There will be oil. Not a lot, but enough to stain the floor, make it hard to sweep, or slip on. If only there were a place where we could make things out of metal… 
+1 for reading it.
This guy makes a lot of mistakes in his video, from how he folds papers, to sewing, to finishing. I wouldn’t recommend following what he does.
YouTuber Sea Lemon has some great tutorials for simple binding and getting started: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2F704E01F80BA1E9
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He does break a lot of rules. Most of what he does is use whatever is at hand. If it isn’t on his bench, he’s not likely to use it. But I agree, there are better ways to do much of what is there.
I’ve found a lot of good examples of sewing jigs online you think a workshop would be cool? Anyone built one? I can’t imagine having a shared sewing jig, its pretty time consuming isn’t it?
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It can take several hours, but not usually a multi-day thing.
I’ve never found the need to use one but maybe because I don’t use a stitch that requires it?
What I want/need is the press at 3:17 and 10:27 …
…but I’d love to do the leather embossing too!
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