Well, I've checked a little more carefully and discovered that Rudolf Koch's method of just clamping the punch in the vise is in fact well attested - and in our two earliest-and-best sources at that.… (View Post)
In this post I'll show just fixtures for holding punch blanks and counterpunches for counterpunching. Fixtures for punching matrices will follow in another posting. It would also be worth collecting … (View Post)
Here's another "minor" tool - but an exceptionally clever one. It is a jig that you apply to the punch (or put the punch in, depending on how you look at it) which allows you to scribe a li… (View Post)
Whatever fuel you use, check its "flashpoint" (the temperature at which it will ignite if there is an ignition source such as a spark). The problem with gasoline/petrol is that its flashpoi… (View Post)
One of the many important things that Stan Nelson taught us at his 2016 Wells College punchcutting class was a working method that he had learned in his studies with Nelly Gable at l'Imprimerie natio… (View Post)