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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 · 1d

I found out the same thing the same way. So my next order was from American Artisan Inks, no visible religious icons or anything, just a guy very interested in ink as far as I can tell

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 2d

A most helpful beast.

A fluffy gray cat on a blanket, sleeping, in front of piles of unfolded and folded cards.

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 6d

It was over 80°F on Monday- and now we have a frost warning. Guess I'll have to cover up the Indigo tonight.

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 6d

So very neat to see that someone I made a logo for 15 years ago has won a MacArthur Genius ward. He was doing important work back then too. Congrats Nab!

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 6d

6k! Woof

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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 6d

Is that dramatically more than it's been in the past? Or is this a new show?

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

Good luck with both of those things!

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 8d

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

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 11d

Happy birthday? I was that several weeks ago!

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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 11d

Thanks!

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 12d

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 · 15d

Doing my best, with a handful of others 🥲

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 15d

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 · 16d

Beautiful and powerful work by @springtidepress.bsky.social
#letterpress

Springtide Press @springtidepress.bsky.social · 16d

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.

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 16d

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 · 16d

Uhoh.

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 18d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

It is! I need to look it up.

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 22d

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 · 22d

I know several older autistic people, one is 92 and has no idea even though his son also has autism

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 23d

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.

Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 23d

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?