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Old 06-30-2019, 07:48 PM
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I'll add that for cards, it may be worth adding some other material to the pressing faces of the wood. And that the better the wood the better you'll do.

When I was doing an experiment to try to force a WST on a T206, I used wood scraps and wrapped the wet card in paper. My small vise pressed the wood grain into the card surface. (The card was already pretty beat, so it wasn't really "damaged" much. )
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That's a really nice setup for doing books. Just saying that not all similar things press the same.
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Mine looks similar to this one. I picked it up on a sidewalk on Beacon Street near the State House in Boston in the late 1980's. It is solid iron and weights 53 pounds. The platen face is about 8½ x 11 so I can use it for many things. I put any item I am trying to press between two pieces of cardstock as the top part of the press had gotten a little pitted.
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I use this to flatten my cards.

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I use this to flatten my cards.

Fuel efficient and time saving as well. You can press a whole set without leaving your driveway.
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