Re: lefty's

Hi Jim,
Not near that high tech.  Small, about 6"x10", pedal operated.  No stones on
the top of my type cabinet, I plane my type with a wooden block on a real
thick (1-1/2") piece of  glass.  Still kinda fun, have made a few labels for
some of my plants, they are, by the way, rather perishable.  But still fun
on a rainy day.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] lefty's


> Chandler & Price? Or smaller still? I had one of those type "dressers"
> that held, maybe, 12 California cases and the top of it was a stone.
>
> On Sunday, June 27, 2004, at 12:05 AM, Richard T. Apking wrote:
>
> > Jim--Still have a small printing press, platen type, and about 30
> > fonts of
> > handset type, from 8 point to 48 point, and use a composing stick to
> > set the
> > type.  Kinda grew up on the California case.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] lefty's
> >
> >
> >> Cool.
> >>
> >> When I was in college, I bought a printshop to make a little pocket
> >> money [the GI Bill wasn't enough to buy the beer, too]. This was a
> >> hand-set printshop. When you handset type [wonder if anyone does
> >> anymore?] you set the type upside down and backward in a contraption
> >> called a "stick," which is definitely a gadget for the right-handed.
> >> You hold the stick in your left hand, hold the type in place with your
> >> left thumb, and select and place new letters with your right hand.
> >>
> >> After doing this for awhile, and making a tad surplus over the beer
> >> bill, I got interested in antique type and purchased two large
> >> collections--one, a font of dingbats; the other, several fonts of
> >> "Polipholus" [a type designed in the 1800 to resemble the Roman type
> >> used by Aldus Minutinus] and several fonts of the matching italic,
> >> "Blado" [which was originally designed by Aldus--it was, in fact the
> >> invention of italic. Aldus, who was basically a bookseller, invented
> >> italic so he could get more words on a page in his books and, thereby,
> >> cut the cost of paper. Apparently, the cost of paper during the
> >> Renaissance was a killer].
> >>
> >> Cut to the chase. I can't mess about with something like type faces
> >> without having a strong desire to create one. So I purchased
> >> calligraphy pens--only to discover that I'm a real klutz with pen and
> >> ink in either hand. So your achievement, Jesse, is cool. Maybe, double
> >> cool.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Friday, June 25, 2004, at 10:21 AM, Jesse Bell wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was ambidextrous as a kid - MAJORLY - when I colored, I had a
> >>> crayon
> >>> in both hands, when I drew a picture, I had a pencil in my right hand
> >>> and a crayon in the left. When I used Play-Dough..I would shape and
> >>> mold
> >>> with both hands...then I went to kindergarten. They would not allow
> >>> me
> >>> to draw, write or cut with my left hand...so there ya go. Why do
> >>> people
> >>> CARE? When I asked my grandfather, who did calligraphy and
> >>> copperplate,
> >>> he said it was because the pens they used back then were designed for
> >>> the right hand, like scissors, and to make or convert one of the pens
> >>> for the left hand was just considered a hassle and because they used
> >>> ink
> >>> in a bottle, if you used your left hand (we right from left to right)
> >>> it
> >>> would smear the ink before it was dry. And penmanship was a major
> >>> deal
> >>> back then. Regular handwriting was a work of art and they were graded
> >>> on
> >>> it. Now that three year olds are using the computer most of that has
> >>> gone by the wayside. And...by the way...I was taught
> >>>
> >>> calligraphy, Spencerian and copperplate by an 80 year old master who
> >>> used to design the diplomas that hang on the walls (he did them by
> >>> hand
> >>> and had them reproduced). When I do envelopes and such, I just doodle
> >>> and use crappy old calligraphy pens...but I have some artwork and
> >>> calligraphy (illumination with 14K gold on it) that I did when I
> >>> worked
> >>> with him...and one of the pieces now hangs in Morocco...in the
> >>> palace.
> >>> Kind of cool, huh? LOL (just some trivial info for ya'll)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jess
> >> Island Jim
> >> Southwest Florida
> >> Zone 10
> >> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> >>
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