How to Make an Hydraulic Press for Paper // Emboss and Print

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Today we're making a paper press and embossing the Get Hands Dirty logo on some handmade
notebooks. Bum
This video is sponsored by Inventables and Squarespace and I'll tell you about that
in the end of the video
First thing I did was to carve the Get Hands Dirty logo and see if the pieces matched.
So, I opened both versions of the logo on adobe illustrator and made one of them slightly
bigger than the other so that the counter dies can match.
Save it as an SVG file and then opened on Easel, which is the free software from Inventables.
Rescaled them and combined the parts so that I don't lose any letter when moving them
around.
I carved both parts on Carvey, one of my 3D carving machines and the material used is
called Corian. It's a fairly hard plastic.
Here I was changing to a 30 degree solid carbide V-bit to make all the tiny details.
So I selected a detail pass and waited for Carvey to do its work.
Now that I know that it works, I'm carving the female part out of brass because with
Corian , the centers of the letters A, D and R broke so I really needed a harder material
to achieve better results.
Something I've been noticing is that the first pass always seems to plunge deeper into
the material, regardless of what I set up on Easel. I couldn't allow that to happen
with brass because I could break the bit really quikly, so after reading fome Inventables
forum threads, I followed the suggestion to place some paper sheets under a piece that
is placed near in the smart clamp and then place the work piece somewhere else in the
wasteboard. This way we are tricking the machine. Also applied a few drops of alcohol over the
surface just in case it helps to keep the bit cool.
Brass is not on the list so I chose aluminium that seemed to be the closest material, and
kept all the default super slow and super shallow settings. It took about 2 and half
hours to carve.
At some point I hear some strong noise and ran to see what happened but it seemed all
ok so I let it continue.
Now that I have both matching parts, I need to start making the press. I searched a lot
until I found an example that seemed super easy and interesting. This design is from
an artist called David Andree and I pretty much followed the pictures in order to achieve
a similar result.
I went to my local hardware and metal store to get some springs and some steel angle and
bar.
The base is all made out of hard maple.
Sorry about my hair…
I glued and screwed all the pieces together to create a solid base structure and started
drilling some holes in the metal to connect with the wood pieces.
I sanded and filed the ends a little bit and applied a clear finish to protect the steel
from rusting. I thought about using some color but then I just went with the natural look.
I thought it was ok to make a thin pilot hole and drive these fat boys but the wood split
and I clearly needed to made rather large holes before driving the lag bolts.
I even broke it when unscrewing it.
Because I am still afraid of scratching my new workbench surface, I sticked some felt
pads underneath.
These are the horizontal panels that will smash whatever I place in between.
On the top one, I drilled some holes to apply a wood insert nut on each corner.
I shortened 4 eye bolts and folded the ends of all the springs to make it easier to hook
to the press.
I actually didn't know how to do this, so I messaged my friend Carlos from Cactus workshop
and he told me I needed to heat it up.
This is a 5 ton bottle jack and it will create the pressure in the press.
I realized that the springs were not doing much and went ahead and cut them to enhance
the spring effect.
These little blocks will keep the top surface on track when it's moving up and down and
keep it reasonably parallel with the bottom surface.
I finally attached the the bottom board in place and traced the contour of the bottle
jack base so I can visually keep it in the middle.
Ok, cool, it seems to be working really well so now let's place the embossing pieces
correctly in the press. I used double sided tape and it holded up really well.
After making a bunch of tests, I finally got it right. So I made a corner stop to lean
the paper against and started embossing the notebook covers.
I always placed two pieces of cardstock on the back of the emboss to prevent the corners
around the logo square to wrinkle.
You will see Carolina from Máximo book binding the notebooks by hand in a moment, but first
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We are making two batches of these notebooks, one is already available and the next one
will be released in two weeks so grab them quickly before they are gone. forever
Ok, so now let's watch this special edition of Maximos being made.
A big shoutout to Squarespace, Inventables and all my Patreon supporters.
Thanks everyone for watching and I hope you found this project interesting. The press
can be used in different ways and I think I'll make something different with it on
another video. Catch you later!
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