Lloyd Dickenshied cutting wood type with a pantograph router (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph) at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (http://www.woodtype.org) in Two Rivers, Wisconsin; June 2007.
The machine works by scaling down motions from a tracing stylus (which lloyd is controlling with his left hand) proportionately to a router which cuts into a block of wood. This allows a design from a master pattern (in this case, the letter M) to be cut at a smaller scale, reducing the appearance of any imperfections in the design, which were often created with much less precise methods as we enjoy today with computers.
After this routing process, most letters must be "trimmed": any small detailed cuts are hand-carved by skilled workers using specialized woodworking tools.
This whole method of producing wood type with a pantograph—and in fact, the production of wood type in general—is seldom practiced today.Lloyd Dickenshied cutting wood type with a pantograph router (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph) at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing ...all »Lloyd Dickenshied cutting wood type with a pantograph router (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph) at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (http://www.woodtype.org) in Two Rivers, Wisconsin; June 2007.
The machine works by scaling down motions from a tracing stylus (which lloyd is controlling with his left hand) proportionately to a router which cuts into a block of wood. This allows a design from a master pattern (in this case, the letter M) to be cut at a smaller scale, reducing the appearance of any imperfections in the design, which were often created with much less precise methods as we enjoy today with computers.
After this routing process, most letters must be "trimmed": any small detailed cuts are hand-carved by skilled workers using specialized woodworking tools.
This whole method of producing wood type with a pantograph—and in fact, the production of wood type in general—is seldom practiced today.«
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