Printable View
Printing quoins are expanding blocks used to secure the type to the chase (frame).
Fullsize image: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...g_fullsize.jpg
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...580#post166820
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...335#post158110
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...711#post128888
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...462#post169890
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...382#post177374
That takes me back a few decades... ok, more than a few. I just did amateur stuff with California job case, lead type, and manual feed presses. An uncle ran the Line-o-Type for a big publisher so he was worlds ahead of me.
I don't know what they were using that for, but it isn't a normal lock up.
I learned letterpress when I was 11 from a guy that was 72 at the time. He worked full time as a printer since he was 10 years old and worked until he was 78.
Ah, the Good Ole Days!