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 Another restored antique ..Press bed 465 x 800, complete with felts

Two Table Top Presses Restored

Two Japanese Shin Nihon Zokei table top etching presses restored. The one on the left was restored for a friend and the one on the right was bought in damaged condition from a school and is restored and for sale

Etching Press Restoration

Shin Nihon Zokei etching press restored to it's former glory after rescue from a school where it had suffered abuse, misuse and neglect. This is the second Shin Nihon Zokei press I have restored and just today I got a third Shin Nihon Zokei press brought to me to restore, this one not suffered damage from misuse and abuse but exposure to the elements and long neglect.... nothing missing, nothing damaged just all shabby and surface rust and dust. Seems like I am a Japanese press hospital.... I like fixing up stuff that is well made and useful. Makes me feel useful

A New Etching Press for Studio 19, Kerikeri, New Zealand

The twenty second product of Classic Etching Presses just arrived and assembled at Murray and Cath Dunn's fabulous new studio

Table Top Etching and Wood-cut Press

Antique Etching Presses enquiries: johnmulvay@gmail.com

Etching Press Restoration

 This press was at a School and fairly wrecked over time by the students and came home to the Press Hospital to be made all better. Dented rollers, drive cog out of alignment and teeth broken and many teeth with stress fractures, missing drive handles and missing pressure screw handles, dirty rusty faded and scratched..
The rollers have been trued. The missing bits fabricated and a new drive cog and a correction to the drive cog's alignment is being made.
 Watch this space...

24 Inch Table Top Press

A young Christchurch print maker ordered this press, paid a deposit and waited while I created it.
Here it is just finished and posing on the kitchen table before going the next day to Christchurch

Small Table Top Press

This small heavy press has gone to a print maker in Otago, for Christmas. I made two of them at the same time, the second one for the print studio here. The press bed is 470 x 900

School Etching Press - enquiries: johnmulvay@gmail.com

Te Wharekura O Te Kaokaoroa O Patetere is a Primay to Intermediate School in Putararu, South Waikato.
It is a brand new school, most of the pupils and staff are Maori and fabulous Maori Art is in the corridors and soon there will be fabulous Maori prints!
The press will be used mainly for wood cuts and lino cuts and dry point on perspex prints

Etching Press Sale, enquiries: johnmulvay@gmail.com

Celia's press just arrived and unpacked at her studio on Oxford, North of Christchurch

Here is Celia's press on my kitchen table posing for a photo before I take her to Pack and Send in Hamilton for the trip to Christchurch.

American Etching Press Sale. enquiries: johnmulvay@gmail.com

 Here is Marti Schmidt's 1908 21 inch table top etching press being packed for delivery to Marti's studio in Florida, USA. It left on the big bird today and should be at Marti's door in six days from now.

American Etching Press Sale

This cute little 1908 is off to Florida on Monday.
It is portable and will be carried to various print making classes run by Marti Schmidt.
You can see her work at www.martischmidt.com

Table Top Etching Press

This press is the baby of the range, 18 inch and made from a 1903 antique seen here with Janet, it's new owner in her studio. I delivered it myself to Janet in Wellington and caught up with friends and family while I was there and took the long way home.
Not a bad life...

Table Top Etching Presses For Sale. enquries: johnmulvay@gmail.com

On the left is a 1908 24inch press and on the right is a 1903 18inch press.

Nelson Etching Press - enquiries: johnmulvay@gmail.com

On a recent trip to Nelson in the South Island of New Zealand to paint a mural I took along a table top etching press for Esther Remnant, a gifted Nelson print maker, to try out while I was there.
It worked. She spent a day printing some of her beautiful lino cuts and they printed fine so she bought it.
You can see Esther's work at:  www.nesterprints.co.nz/  

Here is the same press posing on my kitchen table

Etching Press Design - enquiries: johnmulvay@gmail.com

 Above is the second press made and sold to Esther in Whangarei. Esther introduced me to dry point on perspex which I had some success with.

The press below shows some design development in comparison to Esther's press. It is not so wide, doesn't gobble up so much precious studio space and also has a removable handle which is standard now.

It went to an American print maker living in Nelson

Table Top Etching Press - enquiries: johnmulvay@gmail.com

 This Table Top has rollers 450mm, or 18 inches wide and was sold to an American print maker who has a studio in Indiana. Here it is just finished and posing for a photo on my kitchen table.

 Julie sent me these pictures of the press in her Indiana studio and also the other antique printing 
machines she has there. Such a nice space, all brand new and squeaky clean.