2010. Mini Halfwood Press. Serial No. 60062. Rollers are 1.5 x 5.75 inches top and bottom. The bed is 1/4 x 6 x 17 inches in the standard polycarbonate; overall length is 17.5 inches; overall width is 9 inches, 10 inches high and weighs 12 lbs.; the stainless steel wheel is 8 inches diameter; the woods used are black walnut base with ipe cladding steel, walnut hood capped with ebony. The instrument box is poplar, baltic birch trimmed in ipe. Included are felts, copper plate, Allen Wrench, User's Manual and DVD.
You can see No. 62 tested:
Carol's page in the 2009 Halfwood Calendar with her Galleon Halfwood - a bigger press.
Galleon Halfwood Press #1
Etching Press. 2007. Galleon Halfwood Press 90001, Model nine in oak and mahogany. Bed is 3/8" thick polycarbonate.
Artist's commentary: Carol saw the Galleon on the Web and as she had been looking for a press to get back into her printmaking, she called. She like the mini, but the Galleon was her first choice. A year passed, and then she saw a second opportunity and got a Mini. Each time she is in Seattle, we have talks ranging widely--from the things we like on the Internet (TED, for example) to our shared interest in cooperative studios. She is a graphic designer as well as a painter. You can learn more about Carol on her site, below.
About the Galleon: After Tom Kughler built the Century Halfwoood, 24" Model , then the Mini and the Mariner, he said a nine-inch bed would be perfect in every regard. So he built the Galleon - being between the Mini with its six-inch wide bed and the Mariner with its twelve-inch wide bed. At 50 lbs it's almost as portable as the Mini. I made number one mostly of oak, with mahogany laminated in the base. Tom was correct-this press was immediately a success.
Carol likes lithography so I did its test with vitreography - see it on YouTube:
To learn more about the Galleon Halfwood Press go to the Web site.
