2010. Mini Halfwood Press. Serial No. 60056. Specifications: rollers are solid steel, 1.5 x 5.75 inches top and bottom; bed is 1/4 x 6 x 17 inches polycarbonate; overall length is 17.5 inches, width is 9 inches and height is 10 inches. It weighs 12 lbs.. The drive wheel is 8 inches diameter stainless steel. The woods are black walnut base with ipe cladding steel, walnut hood capped with ipe. The instrument box is poplar, baltic birch trimmed in ipe. Included are felts, copper plate, Allen Wrench, User's Manual (with an excerpt from the out-of-print, Halfwood Press-The Story, now available as a Kindle book) and DVD.
Artist's comment: I met Barbara at a Daniel Smith Store in October of 2009, and she ordered a Mini. She works in linoleum mostly, so for her press she made a chase and came to the Halfwood Press Workshop to try it out. You can view the video here:
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