{"id":1679,"date":"2017-08-18T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2018-01-05T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:42:41","slug":"my-new-printing-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"My New Printing Press"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wright Combination Press – Disassembled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last weekend I bought myself a slightly used, slightly disassembled Wright Combination press.
\nIt is in good shape but missing the scrapper bar for lithography. If I can’t find a replacement part I’ll have to make one. I don’t think this will be a problem and my first priority is to clear room to set the thing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend I bought myself a slightly used, slightly disassembled Wright Combination press. It is in good shape but missing the scrapper bar for lithography. If I can’t find a replacement part I’ll have to make one. I don’t think this will be a problem and my first priority is to clear room to set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"My New Etching Press","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,19],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_blog","category-printmaking","tag-etching-press"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUgG3-r5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1690,"url":"https:\/\/www.darrenbrant.com\/?p=1690","url_meta":{"origin":1679,"position":0},"title":"Moved the Press","author":"db","date":"September 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Moved my press bits into the attic. 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