When I acquired this No. 2 many years ago, an offset printing blanket (the press was being used for perforating/cutting prior to my getting it) was clamped between or under these flat bars. I replaced the blanket way back when and took these bars off and used the square cinching bars to tighten the blanket. […]
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Studied Printing in Yolo High School (school for truants, drug users and gang members in W. Sacramento, CA) in 1969, worked at a print shop in San Francisco in 1970-71 (offset, but huge letterpress shop upstairs from where I worked so would visit at lunchtime). Acquired a Vandercook No.2 the morning before all equipment was to be scrapped around 1985 and it sat in my basement ever since. Bought several presses around 2010 (Sigwalt 3x5, Excelsior 10x15 table top, Golding Pearl 5x7 floor mount, 10x15 Cleveland Gordon (like a C&P).
My wife is an artist and we hope to print some of her work.