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Well hello! Intern caught me, in the moment before the supremely deep breath required to pick up the Colt's massive chase. #metaltype #makespace #coltsarmorypress #letterpress #peekaboo #thefacebehindthepress

Well hello! Intern caught me, in the moment before the supremely deep breath required to pick up the Colt's massive chase. #metaltype #makespace #coltsarmorypress #letterpress

Sweet, sweet oscillation. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) #coltsarmorypress #nextsteps

Tonight's happy project! Cleaning up the coolest thing I've ever gotten in the mail: @marsolaispress's steel oscillating roller on loan from their Colt's, sister press to mine. The Grand Plan: get it shiny and take it for a test drive on my press, then into the trustworthy hands of local machining wizard @lichenbikes to take it apart oh-so-carefully, document its inner workings, make a blueprint and machine a new one for my press. Unless someone's unearthed one in the meantime? Also, anybody else need one of these babies for a 14x22 Colt's? Major thanks to Jesse @marsolaispress for the cross-continent loan. #pressrestoration #slowbutsure #oscillatingroller #letterpress #community #coltsarmorypress

Green today! Dialing in the first pass for "Choices" with ivy mint + a whole lot of trans. #inkingup #coltsarmorypress #tessgallagher @graywolfpress

@clawhammerpress in the shop! In the past 36hrs we managed to hit about every corner of printer-artist-small-business-owner-human-kindness-practitioner conversation, shared notebook scribbles and sketches, composed a joint poem and knocked out three passes with a reduction cut. It was such a pleasure to get to host a traveling printer and pay forward some smidgeon of all the immense generosity that's been shared with me, not hard to do with such a talented, kind, observant, and dedicated fellow as Michael. Can't wait to kick it with him again up at @gaspereaupress next month! #printtravels #artistprinter #letterpress #community #coltsarmorypress

Colt's first color! And Expedition's first foray with pink. Straight rhodamine red for a strong accent, thanks to inspiration from the shock of magenta carpet I encountered in Pablo Neruda's bedroom as a teenager, at his house-turned-museum in Valparaíso, Chile. #pabloneruda #ihadnotseenit #coltsarmorypress @copper_canyon_press

Got a seriously huge form locked up and proofed on the Colt's today with a seriously ambitious positive-protest-minded teenager. Spent last week on the trail with ten phenomenal kids studying bees and trees and our own inner capacity. I'm here to report, there's hope for the future. Keep teaching! Keep sharing what you care about! And keep taking the time even when there's no time. #poemaboutmyrights #metaltype #coltsarmorypress