I've got an Adana 8x5 letterpress I've had for years but never used (check out this person's set of photos to see what I mean). It was misaligned once I got it home, and no amount of reading and watching youtube videos helped me fix it. I finally took it to the one specialist I could find in pretty much all of Canada, which was luckily in East Toronto, and now it's ready for pick-up. I'm thinking I'll go get it next week sometime. But what that means is that I can now use my letterpress blocks for legitimate letterpress uses. I no longer need to photocopy prints of them to make stationery, and so I'm going to stop doing that.
There are two designs that have made it to safety in this virtual housecleaning. I am really in love with my four page mermaid set, and my astronomer set. I'm on the fence about keeping my oblivion set, which people seem to like but that might be a pain to reproduce if anyone who loves it ever buys it! For now it's staying, but I can't guarantee that will always be the case.
I am also considering revamping the remaining sets, creating a digital template for the lines and still working with the letterpress blocks for the images. That would let me get more creative with the fonts and line spacing, which I'd love to do. Unfortunately, it would also mean leaving Tomoe River paper out of the running, given that it really can't survive two trips through the printer!
I won't be taking the designs out of circulation right away. Instead I'll leave them up until the listings expire, and then I just won't renew them. There are eight sets retiring, and their retirement dates vary from September 28th to January 4th.
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