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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press
@bowerbox.com
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Letterpress nerd, fledgling typefoundry, cats. Also probably mushrooms. Find my work at bowerbox.com, buy some of my type and print things with it! Subscribe to my niche newsletter about typecasting: americantypecastingfellowship.org
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 10h
6k! Woof
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 10h
Is that dramatically more than it's been in the past? Or is this a new show?
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 11h
HOLY BALLS that's insane. I don't think I even have that much stock to sell!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 22h
I have been ignoring the mulberry that's sneaking up on the power line and I know that's going to come back and bite me.
Can you sell the firewood from it?
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 22h
Good luck with both of those things!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 1d
How do I block just these shitty ads from the feed? I still want to see the actual writing, but not 15 prime day ads every hour
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 4d
Happy birthday? I was that several weeks ago!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 4d
Thanks!
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 5d
Ten years ago I quit my job in a digital print shop and dove into running my own analog print shop full time. Overall, it's been 17 years of running Bowerbox Press. Still feels good! #letterpress
A smiling woman with short hair standing in a crowded letterpress print shop, holding up pieces of wood type that say 10
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 8d
Doing my best, with a handful of others 🥲
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 8d
Typecasting should be on the list! Trying to save it over here in the US, there are a few casters left in the UK but not many
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 9d
Beautiful and powerful work by @springtidepress.bsky.social
#letterpress
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Springtide Press @springtidepress.bsky.social · 9d
Since January I’ve been printing a monthly protest poster utilizing and documenting the wood type in my collection. The barrage of news is unrelenting, but for August I wanted to focus on the continuing and horrifying genocide in Gaza.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 9d
I love the ghost print on PEACE. And I hope we will get some soon.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 9d
Uhoh.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 11d
They are a vital *swat* part *swat of the *swat* GODDAM *SWAT* ECOSYSTEM *SWAT SWAT SWAT*
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 14d
Students had extra time in class after doing their assignments, so I set them loose among the wood type and they restocked the poster board. #letterpress
A sandwich-board type stand holding various letterpress printed posters, reading "it's the guns", empathy shows intelligence, i want my rights back, the future belongs to us, and this is the longest joke ever
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 15d
It is! I need to look it up.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 15d
Bought myself a birthday present. 1893(ish) specimen book from BB&S/Great Western Type Foundry. It's got some pretty neat stuff in it! #typefoundry #letterpress
A red book held in one hand, the cover reads "Pony Specimen Book" in a backslant italic face
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 15d
I know several older autistic people, one is 92 and has no idea even though his son also has autism
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 16d
I'll see if I can find any more! They were in a hellbox with some other little pretties. They look in good shape but I don't have any of the other pieces of that border.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 16d
Jen, I just found a few of those bigger squares with the flower garland in the middle, bars top and bottom... would you like them?
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 16d
Let's hope so? It's so stupid
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 16d
Oh no I was out in the woods, I'm scared to look. I might go back to the woods instead.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 20d
I engraved and cast these for Jen over the summer- such a fun project! #typecasting
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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 20d
The Type High Prize mails out to all Print Club members that’ve been in the Club for a whole year (starting in September) to celebrate Type High Day (9/18). These ornaments were designed by me and cast by @bowerbox.com. Super grateful to all the PC members that keep the studio going!
Type High Prize package sitting on top of box of envelope metal type ornaments. Type High Prize package sitting on top of box of envelope metal type ornaments. Explains type high day (9/18). Inside of Type High Prize package showing matching set of envelope ornaments.
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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 22d
Flu shot achieved. Feeling protected for the fall and winter (I'll get the new covid shot in 6 months if I can, I got the old one 3 weeks ago)
A white lady in a yellow tshirt giving a thumbs up next to a bandaid on her arm (vaccine)
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