Letterpress wood type

We recently laser cut some wood letters from 3mm MDF for a local letterpress enthusiast, to make these great prints. I won’t natter on about this as I couldn’t decide what pictures to show you…so i am putting them all in!

We cut the MDF letters from digital drawings…

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The type has a 3d, three colour design. The first colour was laid out on his press and inked in gold…

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The ink was left to dry…

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This was repeated with the other two colours, silver and grey…

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After some very careful lining up…voila!

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