It's been a while, but we've been busy

Its been a while, but business has meant we've been away from home for most of July. The picture to the left is of Mavina Baker's splendid 1844 Albion. We installed this about 3 weeks ago. It was another adventure having to drive the van across 2 fields to get to the top entrance to Mavina's house. We remade and brake for the front of the press and installed it in the outdoor workshop. It looks mighty fine in its new home.

We then motored on from Wiltshire to Ilfracombe to deliver a 26" Rochat etching press to artist Ruth Uglow. The press was bought diassembled and had to have major surgery. The top roller was out of line. The bed was damaged. A lot of parts were missing and had to be remade. The press caused us no end of heartaches, so we installed it and returned fresh the following morning and completed the task. The press has had a lot of abuse and we put countless man hours into restoring it. The outcome is that Ruth is printing on it and reports it to be working well.